Othello Critics Flashcards
O’toole - othello and iago relationship
“There is no othello without iago”
Smith - iago gay
“Iago is a repressed homosexual”
Raatzch - langauge chose with iagos name
The phonetic affinity between “ego” and “iago”
Lisa gardine - renaissance women
“Renaissance women were often seen as suffering martyrs”
John Quincy adams - desdemona deserved it
She deserved her fate as “black and white blood cannot be intermingled”
Rymer - handkerchief
“Tradegy of the handkerchief”
John wain - misunderstanding
“A tradegy of misunderstanding”
John wain - desdemona magic
Othello sees her as “something magical”
John wain - Cyprus
“Garrison - town atmosphere”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - iago malignity
Iago as a “motiveless malignity”
Fred west - iago insensitive and psychopath
Iago is “devoid of conscience, with no remorse” and is “an accurate portrayal of a psychopath”
Abernethy - whose hero?
Argued that iago is a “tragic hero”
John e seaman - biblical reference - othello and desdemona
“Othellos fall is a version of adams, while desdemonas is an inversion of eves”
Leavis - othellos fault
“The tradegy is due to othellos shortcomings”
Leavis - ego othello
“The disguise of…brutal egotism”
