Critics 11-20

Question 1

Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed femininity

Answer 1

Bayley

Question 2

Shakespeare made these character easy to sympathise with suggesting these categories created by the Renaissance patriarchy are flawed’

Answer 2

Dr Farah Karim-Cooper

Question 3

Helplessly passive

Answer 3

A.C Bradley

Question 4

Othello feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure

Answer 4

Carol Phillips

Question 5

Possession of a woman’s handkerchief was considered adultery

Answer 5

Karen Newman

Question 6

Cassio’s performance is upper-class flattery and an inflated article

Answer 6

McEvoy

Question 7

The play highlights the destructive consequences of a hierarchical social class system, which exploits and oppresses the working class

Answer 7

Daniel Wright

Question 8

If Iago had succeeded he would have not only been permanently better off, he would’ve been promoted to lieutenant and elevated to upper class

Answer 8

Trevor Roff

Question 9

Chaos from conflict of authority is the very essence of the play

Answer 9

John W Draper

Question 10

his affair with Bianca was a commonplace convention expected by his age and social class… Elizabethans would’ve hardly blamed him

Answer 10

John W Draper