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Who argues that the main problem with gender politics was that men refused to see women as human?

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Samantha Langsdale

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Who argues that Othello’s role as a military man is integral to his identity?

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Hazlitt

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Who describes Cyprus as the “edge of Christian territory”?

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Michael Flachmann

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Which critic argues that Iago is even resentful about the good opinion of his own integrity, as it reduces his masculinity?

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Hazlitt

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What does Hazlitt say about Iago?

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“Iago is an extreme instance…of diseased intellectual activity, with the most perfect indifference to moral good or evil”

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Which critic argues that Iago only succeeded in his manipulation of Othello by hinting that his honour was compromised?

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Coleridge

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Which critic argues that Iago’s extraordinary manipulative success is simply a matter of the conventional ability of the Renaissance villain?

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Edgar Stroll

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Which critic claimed that Iago is motivated by the desire to know and show what Othello is really like behind his ‘mask’?

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W.H. Auden

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Who directed the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s adaptation of ‘Othello’?

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Ellen McDougall

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Which critic describes Shakespeare as being more modern than his contemporaries when it came to race?

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Bernard Harris

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Who argues that Iago’s youth makes his actions more terrible?

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Fanny Ragland

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When was the Turkish attack on Cyprus?

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1570

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Who believes that Othello’s declared love is corrupt?

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F. R. Leavis

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Who talks about the “picturesque contrasts of character” in the play and the way in which these characters are so consistent?

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Hazlitt

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Who believes that Othello feels everything very intensely?

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Hazlitt

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Which critic argues that Iago was attacking both Othello and Desdemona, rather than just Othello?

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Alexander Crawford

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Which critic describes Othello as “the ventriloquist’s dummy” by the end of 3,3?

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E.A.J. Honigmann

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Who argues that feminist critics read Othello’s violent jealousy as the product of a social system where women are dominated and possessed by men?

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Sean McEvoy

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Who does Hazlitt believe are not supposed to be placed in complete opposition?

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Desdemona and Emilia

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Who argues that Shakespeare’s tragedies belonged to their male characters?

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Justin Borrow

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Who declares that we are supposed to see Othello as “a nearly faultless hero whose strength and virtue are turned against him”?

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Bradley

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Who argues that Iago actually fails to understand the fierce nature of Othello?

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Alexander Crawford

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What does Fanny Ragland state about Iago and passion?

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“The absence of all passion in Iago enables him to assume at any moment the feeling or passion which best suits that particular place and circumstance”

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Who believes that Othello’s guilt is “self-deluding”?

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Tom Wicker

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Who believes that Othello is by far Shakespeare’s most romantic hero and doesn’t belong in our world?

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Bradley

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Which critic argued that the word ‘honest’ was in transition at the time that Othello was written?

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William Empson

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Which critic states that Iago can no longer trust Othello because his appointment of Cassio was such a gross violation of military practice?

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Alexander Crawford

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Who was allegedly born in Cyprus?

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Venus

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Who believes that ‘Othello’ is much more relatable than many of Shakespeare’s other tragedies and therefore incites more sympathy in its audience?

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Hazlitt

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What does Hazlitt believe about the handkerchief?

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First pledge of Othello’s love for Desdemona

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Which critic argues that Othello may be short-sighted?

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Honigmann

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Who believes that Iago’s skill is linking his evil together in “one continuous chain”?

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Fanny Ragland

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Who describes Cyprus as “a bastion of male power”?

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Michael Flachmann

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Who argues that one of the main failures of Othello and Desdemona’s relationship was that it was fresh?

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Bradley

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Who argues that although Othello was up to the task of maintaining his military relations to the state, he was not above reproach for personal matters?

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Alexander Crawford

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Who suggests that women were severely disadvantaged by the celebration of the Virgin Mary as ‘the perfect human woman’?

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Marina Warner

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Who states that Shakespeare placed value on man’s love of power?

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Hazlitt

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Who argues that Othello never comes to an understanding of the gravity of his crime?

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T.S. Eliot

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Who aligns Othello’s pre-suicidal speech with his speech to the court about his marriage to Desdemona?

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Hazlitt

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What does Ian McKellen say about the play?

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“Shakespeare had organised it that the villain’s part should be the audience’s portal into the action”; “it is yet another Shakespeare tale of what happens when soldiers are not fighting”

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Where does “I am that I am” appear?

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Exodus, iii, 14

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Who believes that the physical geography of the play is underscored by “a deeper, more symbolic moral geography”?

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Michael Flachmann

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What does Hazlitt believe about tragedy?

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It teaches man that there have been others like himself

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Which critic discusses Othello’s naivete concerning Venetian women?

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Michael Flachmann

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Who believes that Othello’s mind is ultimately very simple?

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Bradley

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Which critic argues that there is no jealousy in the character of Othello?

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Coleridge

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Which critic argues that Iago has no motive?

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Coleridge

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Who believed that the play was so popular because it was a tragedy contemporary to its audience?

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A.C. Bradley

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Who states that Shakespeare portrays women as more than passive vessels?

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Daniel et al

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Which critic argues that Iago manipulates Othello’s deep sense of passion?

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Hazlitt

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Who believes that the struggle in the play is unusually short-lived?

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William Hazlitt

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Who states that Shakespeare emphasises Othello’s self-control?

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Bradley

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Who believes that the impending male violence towards the female in the play is an impersonal force beyond the control of the protagonist?

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Evelyn Gajowski

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Who believes that there is a detachment from sexual violence in Shakespeare’s tragedies?

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Evelyn Gajowksi

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Who believes that the audience becomes complicit in Iago’s intention?

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Sean McEvoy

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Which critic argues that this is a drama of marital, parental and professional honour, with the national honour of Venice also at stake?

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Kenneth Muir

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Who argues that Cyprus’ “claustrophobic confines intensify Iago’s unrelenting psychological assault”?

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Michael Flachmann

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Who believes that the play is about “toxic masculinity”?

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Tom Wicker

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Who believes that “timidity and boldness” are united in the character of Desdemona?

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Hazlitt

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Which critic discusses man’s medieval struggle with the archetypal femininity of both Eve and the Virgin Mary?

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Samantha Langsdale

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Which critic observes that the Turkish threat that dominated the early half of the play disappears by the end?

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Anne Barton

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Who believes that it’s a great compliment to women that all sarcasms on them in Shakespeare’s work are put in the mouths of villains?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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