ENG 3U1
OTHELLO ACTIVITIES
Act 1:
Each group will be assigned one quotation (all taken from Act 1).
Write a short skit which incorporates your assigned line. Your
improvisation need not have anything to do with Othello; however, you
need to maintain the meaning of the line, so be sure to examine the line
in context before planning your skit.
A) “my life upon her faith” (scene 3, line 289)
B) “she has deceived her father and may thee” (scene 3, line 288)
C) “I must show out a flag and sign of love” (scene 1, line 155)
D) “trust not your daughters’ minds/By what you see them act” (scene
1, lines 169-170)
E) “I do perceive here a divided duty” (scene 3, line 179)
F) “Hell and night/Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light”
(scene 3, 385-386)
G) “’Tis a pageant/To keep us in false gaze” (scene 3, lines 18-19)
H) “the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief” (scene 3,
line 206)
I) “But words are words; I never yet did hear/That the bruised heart
was pierced through the ear.” (scene 3, lines 216-217)
J) “take up this mangled matter at the best” (scene 3, line 171)
ENG 3U1
OTHELLO ACTIVITIES
Act 2:
Each group will be assigned one quotation (all taken from Act 2).
Write a short skit which incorporates your assigned line. Your
improvisation need not have anything to do with Othello; however, you
need to maintain the meaning of the line, so be sure to examine the line
in context before planning your skit.
A) “A fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements.” (scene 1, line 6)
B) “He hath achiev’d a maid/That paragons description and wild fame”
(scene 1, 61-62)
C) “I am not merry, but I do beguile/The thing I am by seeming
otherwise”
(scene 1, 121-122)
D) “Knavery’s plain face is never seen till us’d.” (scene 1, 301)
E) “”I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”(scene 3, 2930)
F) “My blood begins my safer guides to rule”(scene 3, 189)
G) “But men are men; the best sometimes forget” (scene 3, 225)
H) “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have to lost my
reputation!”
(scene 3, 245-246)
I) “It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil
wrath”
(scene 3, 276-276)
J) “What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”(scene 3, 348)
ENG 3U1
OTHELLO ACTIVITIES
Act 4:
Each group will be assigned one quotation (all taken from Act 4).
Write a short skit which incorporates your assigned line. Your
improvisation need not have anything to do with Othello; however, you
need to maintain the meaning of the line, so be sure to examine the line
in context before planning your skit.
1. “An unauthorized kiss.” (Scene 1, Line 3)
2. “No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my
hand.”(scene 1, 178-179)
3. “O, well-painted passion!” (scene 1, 255)
4. “I understand a fury in your words, But not the words”(scene 2, 3131)
5. “O, thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet”(scene 2,
66-67)
6. “His unkindness may defeat my life But never taint my love.” (Scene
2, 159-160)
7. “She was in love, and he she lov’d prov’d mad”(scene 3, 28)
8. “Mine eyes do itch–Does that bode weeping?” (scene 3, 56-57)
9. “The world is a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice” (scene
3, 67-68)
10. ‘The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.” (Scene 3, 100-101)