ONE THAT LOVED NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL Definition & Meaning

one that loved not wisely but too well

In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare, the title character's description of himself after he has murdered his wife in a jealous rage.

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So I’m rehearsing all through the play, and I get to his final speech about himself before murdering his wife — “one that loved not wisely but too well” — and suddenly it made absolute sense.

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Othello characterises himself as one ——‘That loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous—but, being wrought, Perplex’d in the extreme.’

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Of one that loved not wisely, but too well.

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one that loved not wisely but too well

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