AO5

Question 1

Coleridge - 1800s critique
Iagos speech at end of Act one

Answer 1

the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity
A being next to the Devil

Question 2

Booth
19th century actor

Answer 2

Don’t act like the villain…but think it all the time
…lithe and sinuous as a snake

Question 3

Newman

Answer 3

Even his manipulation of Othello depends of the Moor’s own prejudices against his blackness and belief that fair Desdemona would prefer the white Cassio

Question 4

Robert Burton
1616

Answer 4

Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husbands but to old men most treacherous

Question 5

Cornelius a Lapide

Answer 5

…woman is an excellent ornament of men since she is granted to man not only to procreate children and administer the family…

Question 6

Fintan O’ Toole

Answer 6

Venice is on the one hand a shorthand name for vigorous capitalism

Question 7

Iqbal Khan
National theatre production

Answer 7

Casting Iago as a black actor allowed an extra layer of racial tension and for the play to explore complex dynamics of internalised racism.

Question 8

Iqbal Khan
National theatre production

Answer 8

Casting Iago as a black actor allowed an extra layer of racial tension and for the play to explore complex dynamics of internalised racism.

Question 9

Marilyn French

Answer 9

Portrays women as “virtuous subhuman or deceiving subhuman”

Question 10

Carol Rutter

Answer 10

“Intimate bond between the two women”

Question 11

Lisa Jardine

Answer 11

Women’s knowledge is considered “private, domestic and sexual, requiring to be hidden from the public view in the interest of decorum and modesty”

Question 12

Queen Elizabeth’s proclamation of 1601

Answer 12

“The great number of niggers and blackamoors which are crept into this realm”

Question 13

William Davies

Answer 13

“(Italian women were) very lewd and wicked”

Question 14

Robert Burton

Answer 14

“Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husband but to old men most treacherous”