Abstract
In that barrage of explosive exclamations which marks Iago in the first scene of Othello (1601–2), one complaint looms above the rest. The confusion that colours his speech emphasizes his outraged response to diminished prospects of promotion:
Why, there’s no remedy, ‘tis the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th’ first. Now sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affined To love the Moor.1
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Timothy Nourse, Campania foelix (London, 1700; Wing N1416), pp. 202–3, 213.
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Burnett, M.T. (1997). Introduction. In: Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380141_1
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