![]() ![]() The Sagittary is a keynote for complexmythical constructions of place and plot in Othello. Having already identified himself as "his worship's ancient"-ensign,or flag-bearer-Iago links his profession and his duplicity to this place.These associations implicate Iago in a characteristically Shakespeareanconstellation of images that also references archery, Biblical representationsof the scandalous tongue, legends of centaurs, the history of the Moorsin Spain, and Christianized astrology. I must show out a flag, and sign of love, Although the Sagittary's primary identification iswith the newly married couple, we are also told that Iago "best knowthe place" (1.3.121), and in fact it is he who first introduces the name: Though I do hate, as I do hell's pains ![]() Through repetition, the text of Othello emphasizes forus an act of naming that might otherwise pass unnoticed as a rhetoricalflourish: Othello and Desdemona elope to a building called the "Sagittary"(1.1.158 1.3.115). LENA ORLIN Acts of Naming and Spanish Subtexts in Othello ![]()
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