TEACHING SHAKESPEARE: "Othello," Shakespeare

Othello:  Act V. last scene Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu’d eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this. And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban’d TurkBeat a Venetian and traduc’d the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus. [Stabs himself.]   101 pages; 19,834 words; visuals