I thought about the way I could incorporate quotes into the scene, whether I should write parts of the story from a characters point of view or just take quotes from the play itself. For example, if I had it from Iago's point of view, I could have the handkerchief, for example, and refer to quotes that reveal his intentions, however I would not be directly quoting all of it, more rewriting elements from the play. Or if I chose Othello, I could explore his growing jealousy and suspicion, again, using the handkerchief or a letter written by Desdemona's father, warning him to beware of his daughter deceiving him and she did her father. However, I feel that the clearest way to get the message of the play across would be to have items corresponding to quotes from the play. This way the quotes will also incorporate multiple characters, so you get an overall feel for what is happening in that scene.
Here are a list of items and quotes that I will use to help tell the story:
Act 4, Scene 3
Bed sheet:
Desdemona
If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me
In one of these same sheets.
Bathtub:
Desdemona
My mother had a maid called Barbary,
She was in love, and he she loved proved mad
And did forsake her. She had a song of 'Willow',
An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune
And she died singing it. That song tonight
Will not go from my mind. I have much to do
But to go hang my head all at one side
And sing it like poor Barbary.
Window
Desdemona
The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all a green willow
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Sing willow, willow, willow.
The fresh streams ran by her and murmured her
Moans,
Sing willow, willow, willow:
Her salt tears fell from her and softened the
Stones.
Sing willow, willow, willow.
Act 5, Scene 2
Candle
Othello
it is the cause, it is the cause, my soul!
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars,
It is the cause. Yet 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,
Put out the light, and then put out the light!
Handkerchief
Othello
That handkerchief
Which I so loved and gave thee, though gavest
To Cassio
Desdemona
No, by my life and soul:
Send for the man and ask him
...
Othello
By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in' s hand!
O perjured woman, though dost stone my heart
And makest me call what I intend to do
A murder, which I thought a sacrifice!
I saw the handkerchief.
Desdemona
He found it then,
I never gave it him. Send for him hither,
Let him confess the truth.
...
Othello
O thou pernicious caitiff!
How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
That was my wife's?
Cassio
I found it in my chamber,
And [Iago] himself confessed but even now
That there he dropped it for a special purpose
Which wrought to his desire.
Bible
Othello
Have you prayed tonight, Desdemona?
Desdemona
Ay, my lord
Othello
If you bethink yourself of any crime
Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,
Solicit for it straight.
Desdemona
Alack, my lord, what may you mean by that?
Othello
Well do it, and be brief, I will walk by.
I would not kill thy unprepared spirit,
No, heaven forfend, I would not kill thy soul.
Pillow
Othello
Out, strumpet, weep'st thou for him to my face?
Desdemona
O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!
Othello
Down, Strumpet!
Desdemona
Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight!
Othello
Nay, if you strive-
Desdemona
But half an hour!
Othello
Being done, there is no pause-
Desdemona
But while I say one
Othello
It is too late.
Desdemona
O Lord! Lord! Lord! [he] smothers her.
Dagger (or with Handkerchief)
Emilia
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou
Speak'st of
I found by fortune and did give my husband,
For often, with a solemn earnestness
-More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged me to steal't.
Iago
Villainous whore!
Emilia
She give it Cassio? No alas, I found it
And I did give't my husband.
Iago
Filth, thou liest!
Emilia
By heaven I do no, I do not, gentlemen!
O murderous coxcomb, what should such a fool
Do with so good a wife?
[Othello runs at Iago, Iago stabs his wife]
Something like this would be Iago's parrying dagger that he would use to stab Emilia.
Rapier
Montano
'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon
Which I have here recovered from the Moor;
Come, guard the door without, let him not pass
But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain.
For 'tis a damned slave.
...
Othello
I have another weapon in this chamber,
It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper;
O, here it is.
Dagger
Othello
Set you down this,
And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbanned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
And smote him- thus!
He stabs himself
...
Othello
I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss
[kisses Desdemona, and] dies.
Cassio
This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon,
For he was great of heart.
Something like this would be the concealed weapon that Othello would use to stab himself.
10 clickable items in total:
Act 4, Scene 3:
Bed sheet
Bath tub
Window
Act 5, Scene 2:
Candle
Handkerchief
Bible
Pillow
Iago's dagger
Rapier
Othello's dagger
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