Critics - Cassio Flashcards
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Samuel Johnson - Cassio (characteristics)
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‘Cassio is brave, benevolent and honest’
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Hopkins - Cassio (name origins)
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‘Cassio carried a name meaning hollow, of Italian origin’
3
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V Walker - Cassio (honour and audience respect)
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‘An exceptional character who they [the audience] can identify with and admire for his loyalty and steadfastness’
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Jane Adamson - Cassio (foreshadowing Othello’s end)
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‘Cassio’s rupture with Othello… provides a number of disquieting foreshadowings of Othello’s future’
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Veronika Walker - Cassio (written foil)
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‘A beautiful written foil to the general’
