Critics 41-60 Flashcards
41
Leavis - ‘[Iago] represents something that is in Othello’
42
Leavis - ‘The mind that undoes him is not Iago’s but his own’
43
Carol Phillips - ‘Othello’s love of Desdemona is ‘the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war’
44
Kieran Ryan - ‘Iago’s most disturbing quality is that he is ‘THEATRICALLY IRRESISTABLE’ - power over audience - hard to not like him
45
E A Honingmann - ‘[Iago] is anything but straightforward’
46
A.C Bradley - ‘a blackness suddenly intervenes between his eyes and the world’
47
Simon Bubb - ‘Iago’s most powerful tool is his voice’
48
Cox - (Iago) ‘makes his superiors his puppets’
49
E A J Honingmann - ‘ago is a seductive character, who is able to get the audience to collude with him. Because ‘his victims lack humour, Iago appeals to us as more amusing’
50
Bonnie Greer - ‘it is only “Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy’
51
Andy Serkis - ‘He is not the devil. He’s you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings’ - played Iago in 2002
52
Fred West - ‘Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath’
53
John W Draper - ‘like Hamlet, he has ‘the courtier’s soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword’’ - Cassio
54
T.S Eliott - Eliot claimed he’d never read “more terrible exposure of human weakness” than Othello’s last speech; saw an “attitude of self-dramatization” as he stopped think about Desdemona “and is thinking about himself”
55
Kenneth Tyan - ‘Othello is the most easily jealous man that anybody’s ever written about’
