Finish the Quote
"The beast with ______"
What is Two Backs?
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on."
Who is Iago?
The title for the Head of State in Venice
What is Doge?
This European city-state serves as the opening setting of Othello.
What is Venice?
“Watch out, man — jealousy’s a monster that eats you alive from the inside.”
What is “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
"Put money in _____."
What is "thy purse"?
"She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them."
Who is Othello?
Cassio's title at the beginning of the play
What is Lieutenant?
When Othello was written around 1603–1604, this English monarch had just succeeded Queen Elizabeth I.
Who is King James I?
“I’m not actually the person I pretend to be.”
What is “I am not what I am.”
"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at: ________."
What is "I am not what I am"?
"'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: / They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us."
Who is Emilia?
The Title given to Desdemona's Father
What is Signor?
The play’s conflict between Venice and this empire reflects real 16th-century wars between Christian Europe and the Muslim world.
What is The Ottoman Empire?
"An unc black goat is cracking your pale sheep"
What is "An old black ram is tupping your white ewe."
"Her name, that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now ___ / _____"
What is "begrimed and black / As mine own face"?
“He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly.”
Who is Iago?
The full name of the play commonly known as Othello
What is The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice?
In Shakespeare’s England, marriages were often arranged for social or financial reasons. This makes Othello and Desdemona’s marriage unusual because it was based on this.
What is love?
“I loved her too much — that’s what destroyed me.”
What is “Then must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely but too well.”
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / ______.”
What is "Chaos is come again"?
“I will catechize the world for him; that is, make questions, and by them answer.”
Who is The Clown?
The titles for all five parts of the five part structure of a tragedy
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Catastrophe/Resolution?
Shakespeare’s Othello was first printed in 1622, during an age when books and plays were becoming more widely available thanks to this 15th-century invention.
What is The Printing Press?
“She loved me because of what I’ve been through, and I loved her for pitying me.”
What is “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.”