Literary Critics Flashcards
Who says this:
“his reaction is an intolerably intensified form of the common “I could kick myself””
F.R Leavis
Who says this:
“there is no tragic self discovery”
F.R Leavis
Who says this:
“habit of effortless authority”
F.R Leavis
Who says this:
“unmistakably self-dramatization”
F.R Leavis
Who says this:
“The character of Iago is so conducted that he is hated from the first scene to the last”
Dr. Johnson
Who says this:
“Liar, betrayer, mental torturer of Othello and Desdemona”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“(Iago) Is anything but straight forward”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“over leap those moral fences”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“chief humorist”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“the joker in the pack”
W.H Auden
Who says this:
“practical joker of a peculiarly appalling kind”
W.H Auden
Who says this:
“Auden’s loose label really identifies one of Iago’s convenient masks”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“blind readers into Iago’s essential sadism”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“godlike sense of power”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“Emilia’s love (of Desdemona) is Iago’s undoing”
E.A.J Honigmann
Who says this:
“the corruption of the Jacobean social system”
Maynard Mack
Who says this:
“for there always is an opposing voice”
Maynard Mack
Who says this:
“(Shakespeare) given the power to see the “truth””
Maynard Mack
Who says this:
“includes the death of the hero”
A.C Bradley
Who says this:
“the troubled part of the hero’s life which precedes and leads up to his death”
A.C Bradley
Who says this:
“The consciousness of his high position never leaves him.”
A.C Bradley
Who says this:
“Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence”
Ania Loomba
Who says this:
“It is possible to see her (Desdemona) as the strongest, most heroic person in the play”
Honigmann
Who says this:
“(Othello’s love of Desdemona) is the love of a posession. She is a prize, a spoilt of war”
Phillips
Who says this:
“(watching Othello) we learn “emotional truths”
David Kazan
