DRAMA - CRITICS Flashcards
HELEN GARDNER
OTHELLO CRITIC
‘THE MAIN THING THAT SETS OTHELLO APART IS HIS SOLITARINESS. HE IS A STRANGER, A MAN OF ALIEN RACE, WITHOUT TIES OR NATURAL ORDER’
CARYL PHILLIPS
DESDEMONA CRITIC
‘DESDEMONA IS THE LOVE OF A POSSESSION. SHE IS A PRIZE, THE SPOIL OF WAR’
CARYL PHILLIPS
OTHELLO’S LACK OF CONFIDENCE CRITIC
‘HE FEELS CONSTANTLY THREATENED AND INSECURE’
QUOTES FROM PLAY
“IT WAS MY HINT TO SPEAK” A1S3
“UPON THIS HINT I SPAKE” A1S3
CAROL NEELY
ROLE OF WOMEN CRITIC
‘FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN IS ESTABLISHED AD SOLIDIFIED IN THE WILLOW SCENE’
LISA JARDINE
ROLE OF WOMEN CRITIC
THE WORLD OF JACOBEAN DRAMA IS WHOLLY MASCULINE
ONLY A MALE VIEWPOINT ON OFFER
MARILYN FRENCH
DESDEMONA CRITIC
INTERNALISED THAT SHE MUST BE ‘OBEDIENT TO MALES’
DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
GENERAL PLAY CRITICS
‘IT IS THE EMOTIONAL TRUTH OF STRUGGLE RATHER THAN THE METAPHYSICAL TRUTH OF THE WORLD THAT IS AT THE CENTRE’
‘IT IS THE TRAGIC MOTOR HUMAN ERROR OR CAPRICIOUS FATE’
‘FOR SHAKESPEARE UNCERTAINTY IS THE POINT’
E.A.J HONIGMANN
IAGO CRITICS
‘ENJOYS A GODLIKE SENSE OF POWER
‘LIAR, BETRAYER, MENTAL TORTURER’
‘EXCELS IN SHORT TERM PLANNING’
W.H AUDEN
IAGO CRITIC
‘PRACTICAL JOKER OF A PECULIARLY APPALLING KIND’
A.C. BRADLEY
OTHELLO CRITIC
‘HIS FATE AFFECTS THE WELFARE OF A WHOLE NATION OR EMPIRE’
‘THE SUFFERING AND CALAMITY BEFELL A CONSPICUOUS PERSON’
‘HIS FALL PRODUCES A SENSE OF CONTRAST, OF THE POWERLESSNESS OF MAN, AND OF THE OMNIPOTENCE OF FORTUNE AND FATE’
MAYNARD MACK
‘IT ALLOWED THE COMBINATION OF A SINGLE FIGURE OF A TRAGIC HERO AND THE BUFFOON’
‘MADNESS CONTAINS BOTH PUNISHMENT AND INSIGHT’
F.R LEAVIS
OTHELLO CRITICS
’ OTHELLO REALLY IS, YOU CANNOT DOUBT, THE STOIC CAPTAIN WHOSE FEW WORDS KNOW THEIR FULL SUFFICIENCY’
‘CONTEMPLATING THE SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF, OTHELLO IS OVERCOME WITH THE PATHOS OF IT’
‘INSEPARABLY A MAN OF ACTION’
ANIA LOOMBA
IAGO / OTHELLO CRITICS
IAGO
‘IAGO’S MACHINATIONS ARE EFFECTIVE BECAUSE OTHELLO IS PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVING IN THE INHERENT DUPLICITY OF WOMEN’
OTHELLO
‘OTHELLO IS BOTH A FANTASY OF INTERRACIAL LOVE AND SOCIAL TOLERANCE AND A NIGHTMARE OF RACIAL HATRED AND MALE VIOLENCE’
‘WARNING TO OPEN SOCIETIES WHO LET IN OUTSIDERS, ESPECIALLY BLACK ONES’
