We also know that she is happy to give good news but has the misfortune of not being listened to (Cassandra?). After Cassio's ignominious dismissal by Othello, Iago orders Emilia to get Cassio together with Desdemona for the ostensible purpose of getting her to plead his case. Instead, Emilia lets Cassio know that Desdemona and Othello have discussed the matter, and that Othello explained why he had to demote

I can't see how any one could take the remarks during the unpinning scene other than as banter designed to cheer up her despondent friend, with a little moralizing against excesses of speech ("...thy solicitor shall rather die Than give thy cause away." Des. to Cas. in the presence of Emi. Opening of III,iii.) thrown in for good measure? The key word is not "such a deed", but rather "for all the world": Cordelia's rebuke to her sisters. I have just rewatched Zoe Wanamaker's Emilia philosophizing to Imogen Stubbs' Desdemona in a Trevor Nunn TV production. There is no salaciousness or pandering, but rather a hard sad look at the plight of the female of the species. The parameters that for her justified infidelity were quite clear. She may have been thinking of the Biblical Esther who allowed herself to become the concubine of the king, even though, as tradition has it, she was married to Mordechai. (From this vantage point Esther was eventually able to plead to the king against the destruction of her people (Cassio), and frustrate the plan of the evil Haman (the king's "ancient" wharever that means?) In the final event Mordechai was elevated to a position of power in th

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