Iago Flashcards
‘He was destroyed by the power that he attacked, the power of love’
AC Bradley
‘Certainly he is devoted to himself’
AC Bradley
‘He is the spirit of denial of all romantic values’
AC Bradley
‘Iago’s malice was fathomless and bottomless’
Algernon Swinburne
‘Latent homosexuality has been suggested in his attitude towards Othello, and it has been argued as the primary motivation in his desire to control and possess him’
Pamela Mason
‘Iago is a subordinate and merely ancillary. He is not much ore than a necessary piece of dramatic mechanism.’
FR Leavis
‘He enjoys a god-like sense of power’
Honigman
‘External evil of Iago that turns this romance into a tragedy’
FR Leavis
‘Iago is threatened by the power and potency of a monstrous kind of sexuality’
Newman
‘Iago is so conducted that he is from the first scene to the last, hated and despised’
Johnson
‘Iago’s maschinations are effective because Othello is predisposed to believe in his pronouncements about the inherent duplicitous nature of women’
Ania Loomba
‘Consciousness of high position never leaves him’
AC Bradley
