in Q it is possible to regard Iago's taunts about animal sexuality as his own twisted, personal vision since Roderigo does not contribute to them, unless we count his earlier reference to Othello as 'thicklips' (1.1.65). By having Roderigo join and even best Iago in articulating this 'primal scene' of miscegenation, it is established as a community view even if the community consists at this point of two men plus Brabantio, who responds to Roderigo, 'This accident is not unlike my dream, / Belief of it oppresses me already' (I.I.I40-I). His speech exists in both Q and F, but only in F do we know exactly what dreadful things he has been dreaming. As though by contagion, Roderigo's speech in p taints our vision of their love even before we see them together in Scene 3 as a valiant general and his forthright wife.
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