Critics For Iago

Question 1

What does Lone say about Iago

Answer 1

-Psychologically, Iago is a slighted man, powerfully possessed by hatred against a master who has kept him down

Question 2

What does Gardner say about Iago

Answer 2

-Iago is monstrous because, faced with the manifolds of richness, his only reaction is calculation + the desire to manipulate

Question 3

What does McEvoy say about the audience with Iago

Answer 3

-audience becomes complicit in Iago’s intentions, sharing his delight in his own powers of evil intention

Question 4

What does Kiernan Ryan say about Iago?

Answer 4

-really disturbing thing about Iago is not that he’s an unfathomable psychopath, but that he’s pathologically normal + theatrically irresistible’