Manager. The feelings of a mother in all her joys and tribulation, you have most perfectly sustained. Now show me, how in despair a widow, who has lost all she possessed through fire, confronts the creditors, who clamor for their dues, and whose cruelty has killed her husband. She stands by his body and points to all that now is left her, the remains of her dead husband, and calls on them to look at their work.
Actress. Come here!
Manager. I must confess you depict pain as if you felt it.[30]
Mark, when running through the scene in which Iago tempts Othello to his final undoing (Act III, Scene 3.), the variety of intonation required in the repetitions of “Honest” and “Think.” In a novel containing this scene the absence of the actors’ trained intonations would cost the author much labor in describing how the words should be uttered.
Othello. Farewell, my Desdemona; I’ll come to thee straight.
Desdemona. Emilia, come.—Be as your fancies teach you;
Whate’er you be, I am obedient.
(Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia.)
Othello. Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,