Critics 41-50 Flashcards
- Loomba
Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely as he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones’
- Simpson
Emilia dies in service of the truth
- A.C Bradley
‘Evil has nowhere been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago’
- Richard Lees
instead of the monster they were encouraged to preconceive, Shakespeare presents an articulate and rational Christian’
- Michael Best
‘Shakespeare shows how the male eye has a disconcerting tendency to see women in absolutes as either divine or hellish, angels or whores’
- Marilyn French
‘She remains submissive till the end’
- Dostoevsky
– ‘Othello was not jealous he was trustful’
- A.C Bradley (2)
‘The skill of Iago was extraordinary, but so was his good fortune’
- Mendes
‘Desdemona made a very specific decision to marry this man … that makes her in some ways extremely strong, an active participant in the drama, rather than an insipid feeble girl’
- Fintan O’Toole
‘Iago and Othello are close … they start to melt into each other … Othello’s grand verse breaks down into jagged disordered prose. Iago’s prose becomes triumphant verse’
- Loomba
‘issue a warning not only to disobedient daughters but also to open societies who let in outsiders’
- V.Walker
Seems to represent the better man
- Peter Hollindale
Desdemona is arguably the most disregarded and underrated heroine in Shakespeare