Critics OTHELLO Flashcards
(16 cards)
Madeline Doran
‘slander is one of the worst of evils,’
‘Iago avoids self-incrimination-he will not repeat his offence.’
Valerie Wayne (men)
‘Venice can not tolerate difference’
‘left alive on stage white men’
Valerie Wayne (handkerchief)
‘cannot be copied-emblem of Desdemona’s body’
‘along family lines’
Rymer (Desdemona)
Neo-classist
‘caution to all maidens, run away with blackmoors /look well to their Linen’
Rymer
Neo-classist
‘Farce without salt or savour’
Coleridge
Romantic
‘motiveless malignity’
‘generous, o’pen hearted’
Hazlitt
Romantic
Iago is only evil as he knows how to exercise his intellect
A.C Bradley (Othello)
modern
‘the most romantic’
‘he can’t think clearly’
‘saves Desdemona from herself, not hate, honour’
A.C Bradley (Iago)
modern
Iago is tragic, intellect=hamartia
‘thoroughly bad, supremely wicked
T.S Eliot
modern
Othello is to aware of the audience and other characters=realism
[speech] ‘terrible exposure of human weakness’
Leavis (Othello)
modern
‘Othello’s downfall is because of his own weakness’
‘ignorance of self [and] Desdemona
Leavis (Iago)
modern
‘subordinate and ancillary’
‘dramatic mechanism’
Honigmann
modern
[Desy]-‘strongest most heroic person’
[Iago]’godlike sense of power’
[Emilia]’Dimwitted or afraid of Iago’
[Rod]’activates poisonous impulses in Iago’
French
femenist
‘All women are destroyed by Iago’
[Desy]’must be obedient to males’
Other feminists (Jardine Tennenhouse)
‘only male pov’
‘Desy death=silencing rebellious female voices’
‘Desy embodiment of power’
Loomba
post-colonial
‘the ‘other’ difference between biblical black and white’
‘contradictory positions of power’ ‘near schizo’
