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42. How does he lure Roderigo on to the attack upon Cassio?

43. Does Emilia express any foreboding in scene iii?

44. How is a shadowing of evil made to pervade this scene? Specify marked points that convey the impression.

45. How does Emilia's talk serve to show the delicacy of Desdemona's nature and breeding by contrast?

ACT V

46. Describe the incidents of the attack upon Cassio. 47. How does Iago manage to get Roderigo out of the way?

48. What other person does he try to put some blame of the attack upon?

49. Describe the expression of Othello's emotions throughout the scene of his killing of Desdemona. Describe the scene.

50. What does Emilia say to indicate she had some suspicion of her husband's honesty from the first? Does this argue for her dishonesty, or for her dullness concerning the serious import of the incidents? How do her views of life, as she expresses them, explain her part in the intrigues?

51. How does Iago's final behavior serve to incriminate himself?

52. What is the dramatic character of Othello's final passages?

53. What retribution is brought upon Iago? 54. How is Cassio finally cleared?

THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

All the unsigned footnotes in this volume are by the writer of the article to which they are appended. The interpretation of the initials signed to the others is: I. G. = Israel Gollancz, M.A.; H. N. H.= Henry Norman Hudson, A.M.; C. H. H. C. H. Herford, Litt.D.

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