Monday, October 7, 2013

Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7 and 8

Mon., Oct. 7
Likely Quiz -- Who Says What, to Whom, in Context -- on II, sc. i-ii, of Othello.  You'd do well to rehearse scansion in iambic pentameter.  After the quiz, we'll try to make further headway in reading the play.

P.M.  Read Act II, sc. iii.  Please feel free to watch the YouTube (Othello (1995), with Laurence Fishburne & Kenneth Branagh) for support.  As it happens, the dialogue in Act II, sc. iii, is not cut up too much.  We are likely to have a legitimate, solo-status Reader's Quiz on Tues., on II, iii.

Tues., Oct 8
Likely Reader's Quiz on II, sc. iii.  Begin to negotiate casting for Actor's Scenes in Acts IV and V.

P.M.  Read Act III, sc. i (brief), sc. ii (brief), and the first half of sc. iii (longer):  pp. 204-226, l. 281 ("when we do quicken").  III, iii, is a big, pivotal scene; so we'll take a couple of days with it -- discussing language, ideas, and forms.