The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0950 Wednesday, 25 October 2006
[1] From: Mario DiCesare <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 16:49:13 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
[2] From: William Godshalk <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 17:03:30 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
[3] From: John Savage <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 17:40:16 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
[4] From: Joseph Egert <
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Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2006 17:53:36 +0000
Subj: RE: SHK 17.0924 Roderigo's Fate
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From: Mario DiCesare <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 16:49:13 -0400
Subject: 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
Dear Colleagues,
The protestations regarding John Savage's statement about the non-death
of Roderigo miss the mark. The phrasing -- "Roderigo pops up, alive, in
V.ii" -- is not perfectly clear, but in fact there is a clear (and
troubling) reference to Roderigo's being alive in Cassio's lines, "and
even now he spake / (After long seeming dead) Iago hurt him, / Iago set
him on." (V.ii.327-29). Indeed, there are several troubling references
here; the playwright seems in a hurry to get to Othello's closing speech.
Mario A. Di Cesare
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From: William Godshalk <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 17:03:30 -0400
Subject: 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
I realize that this will be of little help, but I had the same problem
some many years ago. I can't remember the source, but I was led to
believe that Roderigo came back to life after Iago stabbed him. I read
and reread 5.2 to no avail. Perhaps John Savage will provide us with the
source for this mistaken resurrection.
Bill
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From: John Savage <
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Date: Monday, 23 Oct 2006 17:40:16 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0939 Roderigo's Fate
>Where does he (Roderigo) pop up alive in V.ii? Nigel Davies
Cassio: "And even but now he spake (after long seeming dead), Iago hurt
him, Iago set him on." V.ii.
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From: Joseph Egert <
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Date: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2006 17:53:36 +0000
Subject: 17.0924 Roderigo's Fate
Comment: RE: SHK 17.0924 Roderigo's Fate
John Savage asks:
>Dear SHAKSPER-type persons: Please explain this to me. We know
>Roderigo is dead by the end of the play. Iago told us (tho he might
>well be lying) and Lodovico also told us (he would not be lying).
>But Roderigo pops up, alive, in V.ii, even though it would seem that
>the rule of tragedy should have had him done away with by the end of
>the play. Please explain.
Here are the relevant quotes from Honigmann's Arden edition of OTHELLO:
(5.1.61-2) IAGO: O murd'rous slave! O villain! [Stabs Roderigo]
(5.1.101-2) IAGO: He that lies slain here, Cassio,/ Was my dear friend.
(5.1.114) IAGO: ...and Roderigo dead.
(5.2.105) EMILIA: O my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!
(5.2.110-2) EMILIA: Cassio, my lord, hath killed/ A young Venetian
called Roderigo.
OTHELLO: Roderigo killed?
(5.2.305-6) LODOVICO: ...Here's a letter/ Found in the pocket of the
slain Roderigo...
(5.2.325-7) CASSIO: ...and even but now he spake,/ After long seeming
dead, Iago hurt him,/ Iago set him on.
Iago, the master of deceit, is here hoisted with his own
petard--himself the victim of a "judgment maimed and most imperfect," as
are all the judgments in a play which asks whether we can ever truly
know anything or anyone. The confusion was Willfully sown by Iago's creator.
Joe Egert
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