 | Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely - 1980 - 364 pages
...do not work so well. Her pretense that her handkerchief is not lost and her commitment to Cassio — "If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it / To the last article" (i11.iii.2i -22) — both contribute to Othello's anger at her. In reaction, she again assumes the... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 pages
...the top: "Do not doubt that; before Emilia here, / I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, / If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it / To the last article" (19-22),3i These opening bars display a dynamic of reciprocity: Desdemona's early qualifying* undermine... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...122-23). In resolving to help Cassio, she moves even further into playful, beguiling, insistent speech: my lord shall never rest, I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift. (III. iii. 22-24) She eagerly invites... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 180 pages
...service.78 DESDEM. Do not doubt that: before Emilia here I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, 20 If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it To the last...article. My lord shall never rest: I'll watch him tame,79 and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; I'll intermingle... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 340 pages
...Cassio's friendship for her husband, she goes about her task resolutely, without shrewdness or deceit. "If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it, to the last article" — and especially this one, since as she tells Othello, it is really no more than a wife's duty: "Why,... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 178 pages
...what heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure — and a friend." — Alexander Pope • "If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." — Shakespeare, Othello • Here's to those who love us well, Those who don't can go to hell. •... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 pages
...wheedling for the restoration of Cassio, in the sad posture of the wife trying to manage her husband: 52 my lord shall never rest, I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift. (3.3.22-24) Even this she does ineptly:... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 pages
...herself, vowing support for Cassio, reveals her sense of her own persistance and controlling force: If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it To the last article. [III.iii.21-22] But Desdemona's energy, assertiveness, and power are made possible by Othello's loving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 324 pages
...DESDEMONA Do not doubt that. Before Emilia .here, I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, 20 If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it To the last...shall never rest. I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; no m.? Scena terza [Davanti al Castello]... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - 2014 - 330 pages
...service. Desdemona Do not doubt that. Before Emilia here, I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it To the last article. My lord shall never rest. 25 I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;... | |
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If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it To the last article : my lord shall never rest ; I'll watch him tame '', and talk him out of patience ; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift ; I'll intermingle every thing he does With Cassio's suit... 
