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Performing Act 5 Scene 2
Watch the RSC 2015 acting company performing part of Othello Act 5 Scene 2 on stage.
OTHELLO: Have you prayed tonight, Desdemona?
DESDEMONA: Aye, my lord.
OTHELLO: If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight.
DESDEMONA: Alack, my lord, what may you mean by that?
OTHELLO: Well, do it and be brief. I will walk by. I would not kill thy unprepared spirit. No, heavens forfend, I would not kill thy soul.
DESDEMONA: Talk you of killing?
OTHELLO: I do.
DESDEMONA: Then, heaven have mercy on me!
OTHELLO: Amen, with all my heart.
DESDEMONA: If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.
OTHELLO: Huh.
DESDEMONA: And yet, I fear you. Why I should fear, I know not, since guiltiness I know not. But yet, I feel. I fear.
OTHELLO: Think on thy sins.
DESDEMONA: They are the loves I bear to you.
OTHELLO: Aye, and for that, thou diest.
[WHIMPERING, CRYING]
DESDEMONA: That death is unnatural that kills for loving!
OTHELLO: Peace!
And be still.
DESDEMONA: I will so.
What’s the matter?
OTHELLO: That handkerchief, which I so loved and gave thee, thou gav’st to Cassio.
DESDEMONA: No, by life and soul! Send for the man and ask him!
OTHELLO: Sweet soul, take heed. Take heed of perjury. Thou art on thy deathbed!
DESDEMONA: Ay, but not yet to die.
In this video you will see the RSC 2015 acting company performing part of Act 5 Scene 2 on stage. As you watch consider:
- How these final, domestic, moments are staged.
- What choices have been made and what impact those have on how you see Desdemona and Othello in their final moments.
- Do you feel sympathy for Othello in this scene, as a tragic protagonist? Why or why not?
- How has the tragedy been heightened?
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