...allowed the vulgar figure, Exchange me for a goat . . . (Ill, iii, 209-212) nor a few lines later, Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt; For she had eyes and chose me. (216-218)11 The Smock Alley Othello may have partly...

...vuoti come quelli IAGO Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and...dances well: Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes...

...status. But, as Carol Neely says, Desdemona shows no class consciousness.57 She is friendly and outgoing: 'my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well' (III.iii.188). Othello can take pleasure in her extroversion since, thus far, he has no prompting 'To...

...as a protest against his wife's destruction. But it is too late; the assertive and lively woman who "is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well" has disappeared, along with the troublesome contradictions of the heroics of marriage. Her chastity...

...Venice) the contingent reward of merit. At first he resists this temptation: 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,...dances well: Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes...

...obsessed with bloated, fly-blown suspicions such as you are on about. It doesn't To say my wife is fair, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and...dances well: Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw 215 The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had...

...soul 180 To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,...dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes,...

...still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No, to be once in doubt, Is to be resolv'd ... Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago, I'll see before I doubt, when I doubt,...

...jealousy of a Corvino or Thorello or Leontes, Othello insists that . . .Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company....dances well. Where virtue is, these are more virtuous (3- 3- 187-90) Unlike the innately suspicious lago, it is Othello's impulse to trust Desdemona's loving...

...using. At first, Othello resists the terrible suggestion by means of logic: 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous [III. iii. 183-86]. Besides, he reasons, "she had eyes, and...