Critics Flashcards
1
Q
John Quincy Adams
A
Desdemona deserves to die because she has married a dead man
2
Q
Bradley on Othello
A
Othello is entirely blameless
3
Q
Leavis
A
Othello is to blame
4
Q
John Wain
A
Iago is entirely loveless
5
Q
Praz
A
Iago is responding to being uckholded
6
Q
Empson
A
Use of Honest in context of 16th century is that it means ‘like us’
7
Q
Bradley on D
A
innocent as a child
8
Q
Herauld on D
A
Frequently evades truth
9
Q
Auden
A
D has a mesallience in the willow scene
10
Q
Loomba
A
Othello is a victim of Racial discrimination then he becomes an agent of misogyny
11
Q
Cox
A
women are either virgins and saints or devils and whores
12
Q
Simpson
A
Emilia dies in service of the truth
13
Q
Bayley
A
Emilia is the mouth piece of repressed feminity
14
Q
Bradshaw
A
Murder is the only consumation
15
Q
Falconer
A
Men concerned primarily with reputation
