critical readings Flashcards
Martin Waugh
“love and hate are always closely interrelated”
Newman (desdem and love)
Desdemona could not, contrary to nature, long love a black man
Newman (othello and iago)
Even his manipulation of othello depends on the moors own prejudices against his blackness
Freedman (gender based readings)
flood of feminist writing on shakespear
Strickler (desdem and rebellion)
Does not flee the wild. Instead, she flees to a figure who represents the wild
Hawkes (shakespear in the present)
the present can only be an intervening, distracting fog that needs to be peirced and blown away
W. H. Auden (iago)
joker of the pack
Dr Johnson (Iago)
he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised
Tennenhouse
Desdemonas smothering is an example of silencing the female political voice
Kazan
“inability to understand the complexities of the changing world”
Coleridge
“next to devil”
Loomba
Othello is a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance and a nightmare of racial hatered and male violence
Rhymer
cautionary tale against marrying against your parents
Loomba
Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of mysoginistic ones
Honigmann
Emilia is incredibly dimwitted or made her too afraid of iago to challenge him until its too late
