DRAMA - CRITICS

Question 1

HELEN GARDNER
OTHELLO CRITIC

Answer 1

‘THE MAIN THING THAT SETS OTHELLO APART IS HIS SOLITARINESS. HE IS A STRANGER, A MAN OF ALIEN RACE, WITHOUT TIES OR NATURAL ORDER’

Question 2

CARYL PHILLIPS
DESDEMONA CRITIC

Answer 2

‘DESDEMONA IS THE LOVE OF A POSSESSION. SHE IS A PRIZE, THE SPOIL OF WAR’

Question 3

CARYL PHILLIPS
OTHELLO’S LACK OF CONFIDENCE CRITIC

Answer 3

‘HE FEELS CONSTANTLY THREATENED AND INSECURE’
QUOTES FROM PLAY
“IT WAS MY HINT TO SPEAK” A1S3
“UPON THIS HINT I SPAKE” A1S3

Question 4

CAROL NEELY
ROLE OF WOMEN CRITIC

Answer 4

‘FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN IS ESTABLISHED AD SOLIDIFIED IN THE WILLOW SCENE’

Question 5

LISA JARDINE
ROLE OF WOMEN CRITIC

Answer 5

THE WORLD OF JACOBEAN DRAMA IS WHOLLY MASCULINE
ONLY A MALE VIEWPOINT ON OFFER

Question 6

MARILYN FRENCH
DESDEMONA CRITIC

Answer 6

INTERNALISED THAT SHE MUST BE ‘OBEDIENT TO MALES’

Question 7

DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
GENERAL PLAY CRITICS

Answer 7

‘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’

Question 8

E.A.J HONIGMANN
IAGO CRITICS

Answer 8

‘ENJOYS A GODLIKE SENSE OF POWER
‘LIAR, BETRAYER, MENTAL TORTURER’
‘EXCELS IN SHORT TERM PLANNING’

Question 9

W.H AUDEN
IAGO CRITIC

Answer 9

‘PRACTICAL JOKER OF A PECULIARLY APPALLING KIND’

Question 10

A.C. BRADLEY
OTHELLO CRITIC

Answer 10

‘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’

Question 11

MAYNARD MACK

Answer 11

‘IT ALLOWED THE COMBINATION OF A SINGLE FIGURE OF A TRAGIC HERO AND THE BUFFOON’
‘MADNESS CONTAINS BOTH PUNISHMENT AND INSIGHT’

Question 12

F.R LEAVIS
OTHELLO CRITICS

Answer 12

’ 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’

Question 13

ANIA LOOMBA
IAGO / OTHELLO CRITICS

Answer 13

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’