critics - iago Flashcards
coleridge
‘motiveless malignity’
goddard
‘highest intellectual gifts
kermode
‘iago’s langauge is at its core it is filth’
adamson
‘iago is more a catalyst that precipitates destruction than a devil that causes it’
honnigman
‘godlike sense of power’
‘mental torturer
holland
‘iago is the stage manager’
johnson
‘so conducted, that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised
hazlitt
‘diseased intellectual activity’
auden
‘practical joker of the most appalling kind’
o’toole
‘iago’s brilliance lies not in what he puts in othello’s mind but what he drains out’
‘no othello without iago’
raatzch
‘the phonetic affinity between ‘ego’ and ‘iago’
a.c bradley
‘general spite against the goodness of men’ and has ‘a keen sense of superiority and makes his superior his puppet’
‘motivated by power/pride and needs to prove his power and superiority’
godfrey
‘voice of jealousy itself’
