Othello critics Flashcards
1
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Loomba
A
Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance
2
Q
Granville Barker
A
A tragedy without meaning
3
Q
O’Toole
A
Iago is the “Machiavellian villain…there is no Othello without Iago”
4
Q
Hugh Quarshie, a black actor
A
Suggests Shakespear is a “racist by omission, not commission”
5
Q
TS Elliot
A
He argues Othello does not obtain redemption although Othello believes he is honourable as he acted accordingly to the circumstances of female infidelity
6
Q
Lisa Gardine
A
Renaissance women were often seen as suffering martyrs
7
Q
John Wain (1971)
A
“a tragedy of misunderstanding”
“[Othello] does not see [Desdemona] as a real girl, but as something magical that has happened to him”
8
Q
Robert B. Heilman
A
The least heroic of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes
