MR. HECKLEBURY. That is all I wanted to ask you.
MR. FUSSLER. I understand that you have produced a play called _Othello_
on more than one occasion; perhaps you will inform us whether the
following passages are in your opinion suitable for public declamation?
(Mr. FUSSLER _then proceeded to read several extracts to which he
objected on account of their offensive signification_.)
MR. IRVING protested that SHAKSPEARE, and not himself, was responsible
for such passages.
MR. FUSSLER. Unfortunately, SHAKSPEARE is not before us--and you are.
You admit that you have produced a play containing lines such as
I have just read? That is enough for Us.
MR. MEDLAM. Unless I am mistaken, the hero in _Othello_ is not only a
murderer but a suicide?