Othello critics Flashcards
1
Q
Auden
A
Pity Desdemona but dont like her
2
Q
Ania Loomba
A
Bianca is a whore, Desdemona is treated as if she were one and Emilia is dismissed as a bawd
3
Q
Ania Loomba
A
“Women and Blacks exist as ‘the other’.”
4
Q
Coleridge
A
Motiveless Malignanty
5
Q
HH furness
A
wished this tragedy had never been written
6
Q
Ruth Cowig
A
Alien in a white society
7
Q
Lisa Jardine, feminist reading
A
“Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity.”
8
Q
caryl phillips
A
“Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war.”
9
Q
Kermode
A
“Iago is motivated by more than a mere desire for revenge.”
10
Q
O’toole
A
‘there is no Othello without Iago’
