Critics 11-20

Question 1

11. Bayley

Answer 1

Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed femininity’

Question 2

12. Dr Farah Karim-Cooper

Answer 2

Shakespeare made these character easy to sympathise with suggesting these categories created by the Renaissance patriarchy are flawed’

Question 3

13. A.C Bradley

Answer 3

Helplessly passive

Question 4

14. Carol Phillips

Answer 4

Othello feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure’

Question 5

15. Karen Newman

Answer 5

Possession of a woman’s handkerchief was considered adultery’

Question 6

16. McEvoy

Answer 6

Cassio’s performance is upper-class flattery and an inflated article

Question 7

17. Daniel Wright

Answer 7

The play highlights the destructive consequences of a hierarchical social class system, which exploits and oppresses the working class’

Question 8

18. Trevor Roff

Answer 8

If Iago had succeeded he would have not only been permanently better off, he would’ve been promoted to lieutenant and elevated to upper class’

Question 9

19. John W Draper

Answer 9

Chaos from conflict of authority is the very essence of the play’

Question 10

20. John W Draper (2)

Answer 10

his affair with Bianca was a commonplace convention expected by his age and social class… Elizabethans would’ve hardly blamed him’