...not only stupidly immoral, but is levity. lago say* of the use he will make of this handkerchief: — Trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Some of the moral observations about truth and honesty are no doubt dictated from a true knowledge...

...acknown on't; I have use for it. 3,3 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison:95 Dangerous conceits are in their natures...

...which in its insubstantiality becomes a symbol of the vulnerability of his love to lago's machinations: 'Trifles light as air | Are to the jealous confirmations strong | As proofs of holy writ' (3.3.326-8). A crucial way in which Othello is exceptional among Shakespeare's tragedies is the presence...

...it. Go, leave me. [Exit Emilia] 365 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison. 370 Dangerous conceits are in their...

...relation between representation and belief, which on second thought seems rather commonplace, when he says "Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of Holy Writ." The equation of jealousy and devotion reminds us that both involve submissions of faith to a particular...

...insecurity. lrrational jealousy can create its own certatnttes. as lago is well awarec "Trifles ltght as air are to the jealous / Confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ." Using no more than a stolen handkerchief and a few misconstrued conversations. he cynically mantpulates...

...I passed a most unpleasant afternoon.— It was late before we retired to Lady B 's dressing-room, "Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." 4 And as she was much struck with the idea, she appealed to my Lord, to know, if he did not think in...

...and then age will come, and gout, and bile, and ill tempers, and no sweet remembrances of lago says: "trifles light as air/ Are to the jealous, confirmations strong/ As proofs of holy writ" (Othello, III.iii.327-9). You perceive plainly, don't you, Walter, that I have no alternative but taking...

...assimilates it to his latent design: I will in Cassio's lodging lose mis napkin, And let him find it: trifles light as air Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ; this may do something. (3.3.326-29) The handkerchief, that is to say, is released as a datum that retroactively...

...as air" (TRR, 302). One might imagine Keynes's haughty response to this allusion to Othello: those "trifles light as air/ Are to the jealous confirmations strong/ As proofs of holy writ" (III. iii. 322-24). This is exacdy the problem Keynes thinks he is investigating: the way words of...