No Fear Shakespeare: Othello: Act 5 Scene 2 Page 7

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OTHELLO Roderigo killed? And Cassio killed!	OTHELLO Roderigo’s been killed? And Cassio’s killed?
EMILIA No, Cassio is not killed.	EMILIA No, Cassio wasn’t killed.
OTHELLO Not Cassio killed! Then murder’s out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh.	OTHELLO Cassio’s not dead? Then the wrong man is dead, and sweet revenge has gone wrong.
DESDEMONA 130Oh, falsely, falsely murdered!	DESDEMONA Oh, I’ve been murdered unfairly!
EMILIA Alas, what cry is that?	EMILIA Oh Lord, who’s that crying?
OTHELLO That? What?	OTHELLO That? What?
EMILIA Out and alas, that was my lady’s voice.	EMILIA Oh, no, that was my lady’s voice.
Opens the bedcurtains	EMILIA opens the bedcurtains.
Help! Help, ho, help! O lady, speak again! 135Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!	Help! Help! Oh, lady, speak again. Sweet Desdemona! Oh sweet mistress, speak!
DESDEMONA A guiltless death I die.	DESDEMONA I’m dying an innocent woman.
EMILIA Oh, who hath done this deed?	EMILIA Oh, who did this thing?
DESDEMONA Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. Oh, farewell!	DESDEMONA No one. I did it myself. Give my love to my kind husband. Oh, goodbye!
Dies	DESDEMONA dies.
OTHELLO Why, how should she be murdered?	OTHELLO Why, how could she have been murdered?
EMILIA Alas, who knows?	EMILIA My God, who knows?
OTHELLO 140You heard her say herself it was not I.	OTHELLO You heard her say it wasn’t me.

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