ANIA LOOMBA

Question 1

Ania Loomba believes that ‘Iago’s machinations…

Answer 1

are effective because Othello is predisposed to believe… the inherent duplicity of women’

Question 2

Ania Loomba believes that ‘Othello…

Answer 2

is a victim of racist beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones’

Question 3

Stereotypes of Black skin to contemporary audiences?

Answer 3

‘Godless, bestial and hideous’ Ania Loomba

Question 4

Both Black and Muslims were regarded to contemporary audiences as

Answer 4

‘Highly emotional .. irrational…prone to anger and jealousy’

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Question 5

Common conceptions of of Venice to contemporaries?

Answer 5

‘female deviance … ideal republic and hub of international trade’
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Question 6

‘the senate is willing to regard him as ‘more fair than black’’

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Because ‘Othello is needed in order to combat the Turks’

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Question 7

Ania Loomba debates whether Shakespeare…

Answer 7

makes ‘Case for a more tolerant society or … a warning to “open societies” who let in outsiders?’