...OTHELLO Enter OTHELLO, with a light, DESDEMONA in her bed It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars It is...alabaster: Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again...

...imposes upon himself the role of judge and executioner: 'It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. | Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause' (5. 2. 1-3). So he enters the bedroom where Desdemona sleeps upon their wedding sheets, convinced that...

...and, looking at the audience, began. " 'It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,' " he recited. " 'Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is...alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.' " 'Put out the light,' " he continued moving toward the bed and Desdemona, " 'and then put out the...

...which shows that Othello saw not what doth move: OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is...alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. When I have plucked thy rose I cannot give it vital growth again. It needs must wither. I'll smell...

...and mysterious passage, this time indeed verbatim: "It is the cause, it is the cause my soul, — / Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! — /...blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. ..." Othello says this to himself just before killing Desdemona who is sleeping her innocent sleep...

...of how Desdemona is killed. Whereas in Cinthio she is clubbed to death, Shakespeare has Othello say, "yet I'll not shed her blood, / Nor scar that whiter...than snow, / And smooth, as monumental alabaster" (5.2.3-5). The cause of this reluctance to scar her - expressed in a far more complex language than...

...it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause [V, ii, 1-3]. Now comes a shrinking back from the deed: Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter...hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster [V, ii, 3-5]. Tenderness here quite clearly is that characteristic voluptuousness of Othello's which,...

...The Missed Encounter: Cannibalism and the Literary Critic It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars, It is the cause. — Othello v:2, 1-3 GEOFFREY SANBORN Eight white men are gathered on a beach; their ship is anchored...

...candle in left hand, a pillow on left arm. Jake. "It is the caws, the caws, my crow! It is the caws!Yet I'll not shed her blood! Nor scar that whiter skin of hers dian snow, and smoodi as monumental alabastrum." Pete. How are you, alabastrum? After a few more words,...

...which shows that Othello saw not what doth move: OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is...alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. 58 Martin Ingram, Church Courts, 5еx and Marriage in England, 1570-1640, Past and Present Publications...