Brabantio cries out to Othello, "O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?" (1.2.62). Roderigo, by Brabantio's side, and out of Othello's earshot, says to Brabantio, "Signior, it is the Moor" (1.2.57). Othello is not a captain, but he is Iago's captain - we might say "boss." Just then Brabantio and his group of armed men appear. When he comes back out Iago asks him if he's ready to go, saying "Come, captain, will you go?" (1.2.53).
A few minutes later, Cassio appears and says to Othello, "The duke does greet you, general, / And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance, / Even on the instant" (1.2.36-38). He says, "But, I pray you, sir, / Are you fast married?" (1.2.10-11).
Standing with Othello before the inn at which Othello and Desdemona are spending their first night, Iago tries to make Othello panic by warning him that Brabantio will try to take Desdemona from him. Then, after more exclamations of outrage, Brabantio asks if Roderigo knows "Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?" (1.1.177). He tells Roderigo, "It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, / To be produced - as, if I stay, I shall - / Against the Moor" (1.1.145-147), and he sneaks off to pretend to be Othello's loyal ensign.Īs Brabantio and Roderigo set off to gather the posse, Brabantio asks Roderigo if Desdemona is "With the Moor, say'st thou?" (1.1.164). The plan to get Brabantio angry succeeds, but when Brabantio goes to get together a posse to go after Othello, Iago does not join it. A moment later Roderigo does his part to emphasize the dangerous sexuality of Othello he tells Brabantio that his daughter has fled "To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor" (1.1.126). Later, when Iago and Roderigo are trying to get Brabantio angry over the elopement of Othello and Desdemona, Iago shouts out, "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs" (1.1.115-117). This is a little puzzling, but it seems to mean that if he had Othello's position as general of the Venetian army, he wouldn't have to pretend to be a loyal follower of anyone When Roderigo asks if Iago is still working for Othello, Iago explains that he's not doing it out of loyalty to Othello, because "It is as sure as you are Roderigo, / Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago" (1.1.56-57). Iago goes on to pose an ironical question to Roderigo: "Now, sir, be judge yourself, / Whether I in any just term am affined / To love the Moor" (1.1.38-40). "His worship," is a term of respect, so Iago's pun, "Moorship," mocks both Othello's race and his character. At the end of the speech, Iago sarcastically comments that the undeserving Cassio got the job, while he has to remain as "his Moorship's ancient " (1.1.33). In the first scene of the play, Roderigo, Iago, and Brabantio all refer to Othello only as "the Moor." The first occurrence is in Iago's speech about how Othello denied him promotion to lieutenant. Weller, an Eastern Washington University professor of English and Shakespearean scholar for more than 50 years. Welcome to my web site, now under development for more than twenty years.ĭr.
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