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Flashcards in Cassio and Bianca Deck (8)
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A.C. Bradley on Cassio’s character

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‘there is something very lovable about Cassio’

‘moral beauty’

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A.C. Bradley on the audience’s trust towards Cassio

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‘we trust him never to pervert the truth for the sake of some doctrine or purpose of his own’

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How would a Jacobean audience have felt about Cassio?

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Many of the audience members would have disliked Cassio as a ‘new type of officer’

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William Empson on Iago’s feelings towards Cassio

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Iago ‘regards the virtues of Cassio as part of his superficial and over-rewarded charm of manner’

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Elizabeth Mazzola on Bianca (2)

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‘an emblem of the larger world; her movements aligned with integrity, the ability to reason, and mastery of her’

‘picture of female freedom’

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Matt Simpson on Bianca’s name

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‘an Italian name that translates as white’

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Matt Simpson on Bianca’s role

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‘underscores the theme of jealousy’

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John McRae on Bianca

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Bianca is the ‘most realistic’ of the three women in Othello