Critics 21-40 Flashcards
21
McEvoy - ‘Cassio’s performance is upper-class flattery and an inflated article’
22
Daniel Wright - ‘the play highlights the destructive consequences of a hierarchical social class system, which exploits and oppresses the working class’
23
Trevor Roff - ‘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’
24
John W Draper - ‘Chaos from conflict of authority is the very essence of the play’
25
John W Draper - ‘his affair with Bianca was a commonplace convention expected by his age and social class… Elizabethans would’ve hardly blamed him’ - Cassio
26
John Knox - ‘Italian women were very rude and wicked’
27
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper - ‘in this time period women were guilty until proven innocent’
28
Leonard Tennenhouse - ‘Desdemona’s death = silencing a rebellious female voice’
29
Maguire - ‘it would be easy to play a narcissistic Cassio’
30
Megg Ward - ‘Aristotle wrote, “A man does not become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall,” Emilia becomes a hero by the end of the play.’’
31
E A J Honningman - ‘Emilia’s love (of Desdemona) is Iago’s undoing’
32
Carol Thomas - ‘Emilia is a foil for Desdemona and corrects Desdemona’s occasional naivete’
33
Eileen Abrahams - ‘Emilia is prey to dominant ideology of wifely virtue’
34
Megg Ward - ‘Emilia’s role as the backbone of the tragedy’
35
Bloom - ‘heroic intervention’
