...understand lago," he said. "I understand even why the poor devil never says anything in the end except "Demand me nothing, what you know, you know. From this time forth, I never will speak word." He turned on me. "Fellows like you, Norreys, fellows who've lived on good terms with yourself all your...

...that he "demand that demi-devil / Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body," lago remains defiant: "Demand me nothing, what you know, you know, / From this time forth I never will speak word" (5.2.302-5). 'Why hath he?' we too want to ask. Shakespeare, as silent here as his lago, leaves it...

...discover the real identity of Oopervala until ninety pages later: echoing the devilish lago, who says, "Demand me nothing, what you know, you know, / From this time forth I never will speak word,"8 the satanic narrator says, "I'm saying nothing," yet then tells readers that it was he rather...

...as the result of lago's conscious lies, "Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?" And lago says, "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak a word." The stone has broken in two, the illusion is exposed, and silence takes over. To live in the...

...sometimes been regarded as a weakness in the play. Certainly his final speech, answering Othello's 'Why?', Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word. (5.2.301-3) is no explanation, but lago has opened the play with what, for an Elizabethan audience,...

...the terror—of tragedy are finally his; the effect virtually undoes the obduracy of his final lines: "Demand me nothing; what you know, you know: / From this time forth I never will speak word" (5.2.303-4). Here is a double bind if there ever was one: in what perhaps innumerable ways does such...

...falsity and remains fooled by the witches until the last minute of his life. lago speaks of silence: "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak word" (Othello 5.2.309-10). Regan, who allied herself against her father and her sister Cordelia with Goneril,...

...absolute, / That not another comfort like to this / Succeeds in unknown fate». 17. V, II, 286-287 : «Demand me nothing, what you know, you know; / From this time forth, I never will speak word». 18. II, III, 338 : «l'll pour this pestilence into his ear» ; II, II!, 340-341 : «And by how much...

...gesture of concealment, we may discern the official equivalent of lago's retreat into obdurate silence: "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know: / From this time forth I never will speak word" (11. 300-1). lago will no more utter his "cause" than Othello can nominate his; what they choose not...

...has tossed at us. In response to Othello's final question as to his own motives, lago only mutters, "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know/ From this time forth I never will speak word." His cryptic statement "I am not what I am" has been taken to mean "I am not what I seem," but it is...