Critics 1-10 Flashcards
Believed Desdemona earned fate as ‘black and white blood cannot be intermingled’
John Quincy Adams
Cassio carried a name meaning hollow, of Italian origin
Hopkins
reputation [was] an essential commodity for men’
Cox
Iago commits ‘spiteful attacks on others to soothe his sense of social importance’
Alexandera Melville
Motiveless malignity
Coleridge
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The perfection of women is to be characterless… everyone wishes Desdemona for a wife
Coleridge
Refusal to drink with men will damage reputation
Lux
Iago sees Cassio in the role he coveted for himself
Hopkins
Emilia acts in accordance with the widely virtues of silence, obedience and prudence
Carol Neely
‘the phonetic affinity between ‘Iago’ and ‘ego’
Kaatzch