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A quote you can only reach one way is a quote you will blank on at 9am. Each card gives a quote five more ways in. The facts are filled in for you. The three thinking slots are yours, built with Nat first, then on your own.

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The only rule: the facts arrive filled (the words, the lore, the room). The thinking slots arrive empty (the stage, the move, the sentence). Cover any slot and rebuild it from the other five.
1 · The words Three to eight of them, as you would say them.
2 · The lore Who says it, to whom, what just happened.
3 · The stage What we know right now that he doesn't.
4 · The move Flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us.
5 · Room and doors Home door, plus where it flexes.
6 · The sentence Shakespeare is the subject. Blue, purple, gold.
The sentence, three parts, always the same joints.

Shakespeare thinking verb + what he did with the words, so that the audience what it does to us, which answers the door and names the value.

  1. Say it before you write it. Every time.
  2. No "us" or "audience" in the purple part means no effect. Go back to slot 4.
  3. If a character is the subject of your sentence, that is plot. Swap in Shakespeare.
  4. "Shows" and "uses" earn nothing. Hands, plants, turns, strips, lets us see, withholds, exposes, undercuts.

The frame fades as you go: cards 1 to 2 Nat writes and you colour · 3 to 4 one part missing · 5 to 6 joints only · 7 to 8 no frame · 9 to 10 from the words alone, sixty seconds, out loud first. Rough day? Do slot 3 only. One line beats a skipped card.

Film times are from Oliver Parker's Othello (1995). Watch the lines plays every quote to its second.

1the outsiderAct 2 Scene 3Cards 1 to 2: Nat writes the sentence from what you say. You colour the three parts.
“Reputation, reputation, reputation!”
Cassio, to Iago
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
The victory party. Iago has got Cassio drunk on purpose, Cassio has fought and wounded Montano, and Othello has just sacked him on the spot. Iago stays behind to comfort him.
Film: 41:11 to 41:28. The film cuts the triple; you hear “I have lost my reputation, I have lost the immortal part of myself.”
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Reputation and honourIago’s method
Flexes to: A reputation question, a Cassio character question, or a discuss statement on whether honour is earned or given.
Partner: Card 2, the jewel speech. Same word, opposite speaker.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
Nat writes this from what you say. Then you colour the three parts: blue what Shakespeare did, purple what it does to us, gold the door and the value.
2the outsiderAct 3 Scene 3Cards 1 to 2: Nat writes the sentence from what you say. You colour the three parts.
“the immediate jewel of their souls”
Iago, to Othello
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
Othello has just pressed him: “By heaven, I’ll know thy thoughts.” Iago refuses, then delivers a speech on how sacred a good name is. Thirty seconds later he warns him about jealousy.
Film: 50:00. “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord.” Note who is saying it.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Reputation and honourAppearance vs realityIago’s method
Flexes to: A reputation question, or a discuss statement on hypocrisy or on whether Iago has any beliefs at all.
Partner: Card 1, Cassio’s cry. Card 3 is thirty seconds later in the same clip.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
Nat writes this from what you say. Then you colour the three parts: blue what Shakespeare did, purple what it does to us, gold the door and the value.
3trust and deceptionAct 3 Scene 3Cards 3 to 4: The sentence with one part missing. You fill it.
“the green-eyed monster”
Iago, to Othello
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
Othello has begged him to say what he is hiding. Iago hedges, then warns him against jealousy. The warning is the seed.
Film: 50:34, thirty seconds after the jewel speech.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
JealousyTrust and deceptionIago’s method
Flexes to: A jealousy question, or a discuss statement on whether jealousy in the play is natural or manufactured.
Partner: Card 5, the plan this warning carries out. Card 2, the same clip.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
One part is missing. Fill the line, then say the whole sentence.

Shakespeare hands the warning against jealousy to the man manufacturing it, so that the audience  , which makes jealousy look manufactured rather than natural, and honour look like something a friend can spend.

4trust and deceptionAct 1 Scene 1Cards 3 to 4: The sentence with one part missing. You fill it.
“I am not what I am”
Iago, to Roderigo
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
Night, a Venice street, the very first scene. Iago has just told Roderigo he was passed over for promotion and follows Othello only to use him. Then this line, before they wake Brabantio with the shouting.
Film: 4:43. Voiceover as Iago walks Roderigo through the street. “I follow him to serve my turn upon him” comes first.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Trust and deceptionAppearance vs realityIago’s method
Flexes to: An appearance and reality question, an Iago character question, or a discuss statement on deception.
Partner: Every “honest Iago” in the play. Card 5, the next time he tells us the truth.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
One part is missing. Fill the line, then say the whole sentence.

Shakespeare lets Iago announce his two faces to the audience in the first scene, so that the audience holds the truth alone for five acts while everyone on stage calls him honest, which  .

5trust and deceptionAct 2 Scene 3Cards 5 to 6: Joints only. Shakespeare ___, so that the audience ___, which ___.
“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear”
Iago, alone, to us
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
The party is over and Cassio is sacked. Iago has just advised him, kindly, to ask Desdemona to plead for him. Alone, he tells us the plan: the more she pleads, the more it will look like an affair.
Film: 43:48 to 43:55, straight to camera. “So will I turn her virtue into pitch” follows.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Iago’s methodTrust and deceptionJealousy
Flexes to: A manipulation and trust question, an Iago character question, or any door about how jealousy is made.
Partner: Card 3, where the dose lands. Card 4, the last time he told us the truth.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
Joints only. Three lines, one sentence.

Shakespeare  , so that the audience  , which  .

6the outsiderAct 3 Scene 3Cards 5 to 6: Joints only. Shakespeare ___, so that the audience ___, which ___.
“Haply, for I am black”
Othello, alone
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
Iago has just left, having planted the affair. Alone, Othello lists the reasons Desdemona might stray: he is black, he is not a smooth talker, he is older. Every reason is one Venice gave him in Act 1.
Film: Not in the film as captioned. The soliloquy is cut; the film jumps from “Why did I marry?” at 54:04. Read it on the page.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Race and the outsiderJealousyThe ending, how we view Othello
Flexes to: A race and otherness question, an Othello character question, or a discuss statement on whether the tragedy is his own fault.
Partner: “An old black ram”, 1.1, the same idea in Iago’s mouth. Card 7, the ending he writes for himself.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
Joints only. Three lines, one sentence.

Shakespeare  , so that the audience  , which  .

7the outsiderAct 5 Scene 2Cards 7 to 8: From your slots 2 to 4. No frame.
“loved not wisely, but too well”
Othello, to the Venetians, his final speech
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
Desdemona is dead. Emilia has told the truth and died for it. Iago is caught and has gone silent. Othello asks the Venetians to report him “as I am”, then tells them how: a man who loved too much, not one easily jealous. Then he stabs himself.
Film: 1:54:37. The speech runs 1:53:53 to 1:55:42, “Soft you, a word or two before you go.”
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
The ending, how we view OthelloJealousyReputation and honourMarriage and love
Flexes to: An ending question, an Othello character question, or a discuss statement on whether he redeems himself.
Partner: Card 1, the bookend: Cassio loses his reputation, Othello tries to write his. Card 10, the scene just before.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
No frame. Build it from your slots 2 to 4. Shakespeare first.
8the womenAct 1 Scene 3Cards 7 to 8: From your slots 2 to 4. No frame.
“She has deceived her father, and may thee”
Brabantio, to Othello, in the Senate
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
The Senate, at night. Brabantio has accused Othello of witchcraft, and Desdemona has stood up and chosen her husband in front of the Duke. Brabantio loses, and leaves Othello with this. Othello answers: “My life upon her faith!”
Film: 18:19 to 18:28. “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see” comes first.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Women and obedienceTrust and deceptionProof: seeing vs knowingMarriage and love
Flexes to: A women and obedience question, a marriage question, or a proof door, since this is the first piece of evidence in the play.
Partner: Card 9, Emilia’s answer to every man in the play. “My life upon her faith”, Othello’s reply here.
6
The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
No frame. Build it from your slots 2 to 4. Shakespeare first.
9the womenAct 4 Scene 3Cards 9 to 10: From the words alone. Say it out loud first, sixty seconds, then write it.
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them”
Emilia, to Desdemona
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
The bedroom, the night of the murder. Desdemona, getting ready for bed, asks whether wives really do cheat. Emilia answers with the play’s only speech in defence of women: wives see and taste and feel exactly as husbands do, and if they fall it is the husbands’ fault.
Film: 1:32:32. The willow song is 1:29:47 to 1:30:43; Emilia’s speech follows it.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
Women and obedienceMarriage and love
Flexes to: A women and obedience question, a marriage question, an Emilia character question, or the ending, since this is the voice that ends it.
Partner: Card 8, the line she is answering. Card 10, what walks in next.
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The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
From the words alone. Say it out loud first, sixty seconds on the clock, then write what you said.
10the womenAct 5 Scene 2Cards 9 to 10: From the words alone. Say it out loud first, sixty seconds, then write it.
“Put out the light, and then put out the light”
Othello, alone, over the candle
After we have built this card: hear the sixty seconds Words, lore, stage, move, sentence. For the bus, not for the first pass. Watch it as a lore drop →
2
The lore
He enters her bedroom with a candle while she sleeps. “It is the cause” first. He decides not to shed her blood or scar her skin. The candle, then her.
Film: 1:37:47. The captions catch it once; listen for the second half. “It is the cause” opens the scene at 1:36:59.
3
The stage · what do we know right now that he doesn't?
4
The move · flatten it, name the gap, turn it on us
Flat: say it with nothing added
The gap: what did Shakespeare add? Name the move
On us: what does the addition do to the audience?
5
The room and the doors
The ending, how we view OthelloWomen and obedienceMarriage and love
Flexes to: An ending question, or a discuss statement on whether Othello is in control of himself. Borrow it for a Room 3 door on what obedience costs.
Partner: Card 9, the scene we just left. Card 7, the speech that follows.
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The sentence · Shakespeare is the subject
From the words alone. Say it out loud first, sixty seconds on the clock, then write what you said.