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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Othello: Act 4

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Grace, William J.
Affiliation: Professor Of English, Fordham University

Othello: Act 4

Act IV: Scene 1

The scene is again the yard before the Castle. Iago and Othello are in
the midst of an earnest conversation. (Their opening remarks are somewhat
ambiguous, but they may be interpreted in terms of the lines which follow.)
Iago asks Othello if he will think a kiss in private an "unauthoriz'd"
(unwarrantable) thing, and Othello insists that he does not think but knows it
to be so. Next, Iago asks if it is possible for Desdemona to spend an ...

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