 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pages
...him to serve my turn upon him. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.... It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor,...love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end. 1 Shakespeare is not the principal subject of this chapter. His presence, here at the beginning, will... | |
 | Leigh S. Cauman - 1998 - 356 pages
...not women, not everyone who has a Part IV Identity and Description Chapter 8 The Logic of Identity Were I the Moor, I would not be lago. In following him, I follow but myself; ... I am not what I am. Othello, Act I, Scene 1. The concept of identity is central to our ordinary... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - 1999 - 400 pages
...is not told the first speaker's name until fifty lines later — a good five minutes into the play: "sir, / It is as sure as you are Roderigo, / Were I the Moore, I would not be lago" (QiÓ22: iii, 55-57). No play approaches Hamlet in the disturbingly direct... | |
 | John Seely, William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...their coats, Do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul. And such a one do I profess myself. For sir, It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I...love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end; 60 For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...king himself under God " In these circumstances lago stakes out a radical position when he boasts to Roderigo, 'Were I the Moor I would not be lago. | In following him I follow but myself.' In claiming 'I am not what I am', lago makes a distinction between his own sense of himself ('I am}... | |
 | Albert A. Stahel - 2000 - 276 pages
...wahren Absichten hinter trügerischem Schein; so gesteht er - wie eine Vice-Figur - in aller Offenheit: „not I for love and duty,/ But seeming so, for my peculiar end" (I, l, 59-60). Mit rhetorischer Entschiedenheit bringt er am Ende dieses Dialogteils seine Existenz... | |
 | Sharon O'Dair - 2000 - 180 pages
...serves in order to thrive, to get ahead personally, as he reiterates to the somewhat skeptical Roderigo: "In following him, I follow but myself. / Heaven is...love and duty, / But seeming so, for my peculiar end" (I. ¿.58-60). Not for love and duty does lago serve, but several years earlier, Shakespeare created... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...and visages of duty, / Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves." He professes himself likewise: "not I for love and duty, / But seeming so, for my peculiar end" (1.1.49-60). Ironically, he is as good as his word here. Knowing the Moor to have "a free and open... | |
 | Michael Neill - 2000 - 556 pages
...there are Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves.... It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor,...not be lago: In following him, I follow but myself. 1.1.43-59 lago dreams of a world without comparison, a bureaucratic utopia in which place is determined... | |
 | Courtney Lehmann, Lisa S. Starks - 2002 - 254 pages
...himself emphasizes his link to Othello and the malleability of identity and appearance as he offers, "Were I the Moor, I would not be lago. / In following him, I follow but myself (1.1.58-59). lago's statement can be explained in part by Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the dissolution... | |
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For, sir, It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor, I would not be lago: In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end... 
