Othello critics Flashcards
1
Q
loomba
A
he is an honorary ‘white’ at the start of the play
2
Q
Nicholas Marsh
A
Iago represents a new way of thinking
3
Q
Karen Newman
A
White male characters feel threatened by different and powerful alternatives to norms
4
Q
Leonard Tennenhouse
A
Jacobean tragedies tend to show excessive punishment on women which somehow corrects political corruption
5
Q
Frances Dolan
A
17th century followed the idea that murdering one’s spouse was considered a threat to the social order and Othello being the ‘outsider’
6
Q
Loomba
A
Central conflict is between the racism of a white patriarchy and the threat of a black man and white woman as they are both ‘other’ed
7
Q
Dolan
A
His race undermines his heroism to the contemporary audience
