Critics Flashcards
What does Samuel Johnson say about Iago?
“The character Iago is so conducted that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised”
Iago doesn’t change or undergo any personal journeys”
What does Charles lamb say about Iago?
Shakespeare’s criminal characters: “we think not so much of the crimes they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity”
We enjoy the ambition they have to climb the chain of being
What does W.H Auden say about Iago?
“Joker in the park” “practical joker of a peculiarly appalling kind”
Dramatic perspective allows us to share his humour- his victims lack humour which makes him seem clever
Harold Goddard on Iago
“Highest intellectual gifts”
Samuel Coleridge on Iago
“The motive-hunting of motiveless malignity”
What did Samuel Johnson say is the key quality of the play?
Crucial insight into human nature
