Othello
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2021-08-21
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, classics
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Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, plots to goad his jealousy and thus manipulate his relationship with his wife, Desdemona, a noble and virtuous Venetian beauty whom he just married. (Summary by Junrui Zheng).

act one of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by nicolas seducci a fellow by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter rodrigo and iago rodrigo tash never tell me i take it much unkindly that thou iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine should know of this iago it's blood but you will not hear me if ever i did dream of such a matter abhor me rodrigo thou told me thou didst hold him and i hate iago despise me if i do not three great ones of the city in personal suit to make me his lieutenant of caps to him and by the faith of man i know my price i am worth no worse a place but he as loving his own pride and purposes evades them with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war and in conclusion none suits my mediators for cert he says he i have already chose my officer and what was he forsooth a great arithmetician one michael cassio a florentine a fellow almost damned and a fair wife that never set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster unless the bookish theoretic wherein the toad's consoles can propose as masterly as he mayor prattle without practice is all his soldiership but he sir had the election and i of whom his eyes had seen the proof at roads at cyprus and on other grounds christian and heathen must be bullied and calmed by debiter and creditor this counter-caster he in good time must his lieutenant be and i god bless the mark his more ships ancient

roderigo by heaven i rather would have been his hangman iago why there's no remedy tis the curse of service preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation where each second stood there to the first now sir be judge yourself whether i in any just term emma find to love the more rodrigo i would not follow him then iago oh sir content you i follow him to serve my turn upon him we cannot all be masters nor all masters cannot be truly followed you shall mark many a duties and knee crooking nave that doting on his own obsequious bondage wears out his time much like his master's ass for not but provender and when he's old cashiered whip me such honest knaves others there are who trimmed in forms and visages of duty keep yet their hearts attending on themselves and throwing but shows of service on their lords do well thrive by them and when they have line their coats do themselves homage these fellows have some soul and such a one do i profess myself for sir it is as sure as you or rodrigo were i the more i would not be iago and following him i fall about myself heaven is my judge not i for love and duty but seeming so for my peculiar end for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern tis not long after but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for dawes to peck at i am not what i am rodrigo what a full fortune does the thick lips owe if he can carry it with us iago call up her father rouse him make after him poison his delight proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen and though he had a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies though that is joy be joy yet throws such changes of vexation on as it may lose some color rodrigo here is her father's...