 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...masculine behaviour. Another familiar moment, which shows that Othello saw not what doth move: OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.... | |
 | Courtney Lehmann, Lisa S. Starks - Drama - 2002 - 254 pages
...Shakespearean analogues, have found one with a racial subtext. — Ellis Cose, "Caught between Two Worlds" It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me...I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...ended, in a terrible parody of judicial conclusion, Othello enters with a speech of deliberate dignity: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul! Let me...I'll not shed her blood Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster: Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. A... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...dies magnificently. Romeo and Hamlet achieve a new spiritual poise towards the close. So does Othello It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause . . . (v. ii. i) And Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from... | |
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. 
