Shakespeare Is Meant To Be Read ALOUD: Othello

The second part in a series of shorts designed to expose people to Shakespeare's works the way they are meant to be: spoken out loud.

Part 2: Act II, Sc. 3, Iago

And what's he then that says I play the villain?
When this advice is free I give and honest,
Probal to thinking and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
The inclining Desdemona to subdue
In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
As the free elements. And then for her
To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,
That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Even as her appetite shall play the god
With his weak function. How am I then a villain
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
That she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• kyle
• shakespeare
• literature
• play
• othello
• iago

[upliftzippy]

1622? it was performed in 1604

[Pinker33]

I have to honestly say I love your reading of this and I LOVE Much ado! I'm totally looking that one up next!

[ochibicake]

Beautifully done and artfully (if briefly) looked upon. If you have time, I'd very much like to see more of your Iago, or ANY of Hamlet's major soliloquies.

[mattybigballs123]

i am performing this monologue for uni audition so can you please contemporise the language for me as i understand the synopsis of the play but not the language lol thankyou