...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...

...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,...

...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...

...demand that demi-devil / Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?" (5 . 2 . 298 -99). lago responds, "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak word" (300— 301). This is lago mystifying motives even at the end of things, at once provoking...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,"...

...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...