 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 Seiten
...dies magnificently. Romeo and Hamlet achieve a new spiritual poise towards the close. So does Othello It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause . . . (v. ii. i) And Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from... | |
 | Courtney Lehmann, Lisa S. Starks - 2002 - 254 Seiten
...Shakespearean analogues, have found one with a racial subtext. — Ellis Cose, "Caught between Two Worlds" It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars: It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 Seiten
...masculine behaviour. Another familiar moment, which shows that Othello saw not what doth move: OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental... | |
 | Michael Neill - 2000 - 556 Seiten
...scene of Othello's fantasy corresponds to the simultaneous and deliberate occlusion of his reason: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul: / Let me not name it to you." To name his motive would be to render it liable to scrutiny, but Othello cannot bear the thought of... | |
 | Don Nigro - 2003 - 92 Seiten
...on his Othello, wearing a ratty old sweater. John, unnoticed by him, watches from upstage.) MCDUFFY. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; let me...name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. Yet she must die, else she'll... | |
 | Mary Floyd-Wilson - 2003 - 280 Seiten
...the bedchamber in mid-speech, arguably continuing his thoughts on the nature of Desdemona's blood: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood (5- 2. 1-3) If we read these two speeches as one sequence, then the "cause"... | |
 | Richard Nelson - 2004 - 446 Seiten
...the house, at first to show off the acoustics.) FORREST (As he speaks Othello he gains in passion): It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 Seiten
...bedroom scene. We see and hear Tony in blackface recite Othello's lines over the sleeping Desdemona: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul—/ Let...it to you, you chaste stars!—/ It is the cause... / Yet she must die" (Ivory 136). As Manjula enters the auditorium, the latter half of the final line,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - 2004 - 212 Seiten
...forbid 39 fatal very dangerous |»2a DESDEMONA in her bed asleep; enter OTHELLO with a light OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - 2005 - 308 Seiten
...soliloquy opening with an antecedentless pronoun and fear of naming also occurs in Othello, which begins "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. / Let...name it to you, you chaste stars! / It is the cause" (5.2.1-22). In this case the unfaceable "it" is his wife's supposed unfaithfulness. "The cause" is... | |
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. 
