Many signals in the text turned me away from decisions that I might have made otherwise, especially in blocking. Identifying these signals made it much easier to recognize when the actors were supposed to start walking, sit down, exit, etc. Also, in many of Emilia’s lines, the emotion that is supposed to be portrayed is not completely clear, and could have many different interpretations. However, signals within the text helped to identify the emotion that was meant to be depicted. For example, without the image of the ‘serpent’s curse’ (line 16), it would have been difficult to figure out how Emilia might have been feeling at the time. Instead of being able to deduce that she was agitated, it would have been easy to mistake her for sad or defiant or defensive. One signal that was confusing to me and remained confusing to me was line 105, Emilia says, “Here’s a change indeed!” When I first read the line, it sounded enthusiastic and maybe humorous, but I didn’t think that could be right because Emilia’s lines immediately prior to that were clearly very sympathetic and comforting toward Desdemona. Also, the line was in response to Desdemona’s command to “Lay on my bed my wedding sheets, remember; / And call thy husband hither” which I would think would draw a sad response from Emilia. The line was also a shared verse line with “And call thy husband hither” which meant that there was no pause before Emilia’s response. So, after debating the different ways the emotion in the line could be rendered, I turned to a different source and asked their opinion. They thought that the line was more of a sad statement, rather than enthusiastic. I played around with this for awhile, trying to give the line while capturing the sad emotion, the shared verse line, and the exclamation point at the end. When this didn’t turn out too well, I talked with my group and we agreed that I should use this line to “break the fourth wall”, or to look directly at the camera when giving the line....