Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . s: * * Now, whether he kill CassioOr Cassio him, or each do kill the other,Every way makes my game. Now, anyone who has read the play up tothis point knows what Iago means by his,Heads I win, tails you lose. We know thatif Cassio is killed, Iago will be freed froma source of exposure, and if Roderigo iskilled, he will be freed from the reproachesof a fool from whom he has borrowed might have stopped right there,but he does not. He knows an audience oftheater-goers does not want to think. So hecontinues: * * Live Roderigo,He calls m
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . s: * * Now, whether he kill CassioOr Cassio him, or each do kill the other,Every way makes my game. Now, anyone who has read the play up tothis point knows what Iago means by his,Heads I win, tails you lose. We know thatif Cassio is killed, Iago will be freed froma source of exposure, and if Roderigo iskilled, he will be freed from the reproachesof a fool from whom he has borrowed might have stopped right there,but he does not. He knows an audience oftheater-goers does not want to think. So hecontinues: * * Live Roderigo,He calls me to a restitution largeOf gold and jewels that I bobbd from himAs gifts to DesdemonaIt must not be. If Cassio do hath a daily beauty in his lifeThat makes me ugly; and, besides, the MoorMay unfold me to him; there stand I much in peril. In view of Shaksperes care to make him-self understood what shall we think of thecritic who solemnly insists that Othello hadhad a guiltv love for Emilia and that Cassio 122 OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. Residence of Dean Edwin W. Chubb, 115 South Court St. is an effeminate weakling? If Othello wasguilty, why does not Shakspere say so? Notonly does he not say so, but he even makesEmilia in her reply to Iago say:O, fie upon them! Some such squire he wasThat turned your wit the seamy side without,And made you to suspect me with the Moor. Would Shakspere have Emilia make sucha comparison, whose whole force lies in theabsurdity of the charge, had he thought ofOthello as guilty? And would he have Cassio,along with Malcolm in Macbeth, Fortinbras inHamlet, Octavius in Julius Ccesar, as therejuvenating force after the catastrophe, ifCassio is to be considered as a namby-pambyladys man? In asking this we are not holdingCassio up as a model young man fit to bethe hero of a Ladies Home Journal story,but he is not a degenerate. Of all the plays Hamlet presents the mostfertile field for the excursions of the recon-dite critic, and yet Hamlet is one of
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