AO5 Flashcards
“motiveless malignity” and “a being next to the devil”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The character of Iago from the first scene to the last is hated and despised”
Dr Johnston
“Joker of the pack”
W. H. Auden
“Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence”
Loomba
“Emilia’s love (for Desdemona) is Iagos undoing”
Honigmann
“Her [Emilia] handing over of the napkin was stupidity and nothing worse”
Bradley
Othello’s love of Desdemona ‘is the love of a possession. She is a prize, a spoilt of war.
Phillips
“Iago has latent homosexual desires which drive his obsession”
Martin Waugh
“he enjoys a godlike sense of power”
Honigmann (Macavellian)
“audience gain tragic joy from tragedy”
Nuttal
“there is no tragic self discovery”
Leavis (Anagnorisis)
“Othello is a play about misogyny”
Clint Dyer (Director of 2023 NT production)
“it is possible to see her (Desdemona) as the strongest, most heroic person in the play”
Honigmann
“from the same class”
Tom Hiddleston (played Cassio in 2007)
“Iago excels in short term tactics not in long-term strategy”
Honigmann
Iago’s “motivated by love”
Ewan McGregor (played Iago in 2007)
“Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones.”
Loomba
“Cassio is a puppet in Iago’s hands”
Warren
“Cassio’s worthiness outweighs his weakness”
Warren
“His humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims.”
Honigmann
