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A.C. Bradley on Emilia’s death

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‘nothing in her life becomes her like the losing of it’

‘careless for her own life in the end’

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A.C. Bradley on Emilia’s character

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‘she nowhere shows any sign of having a bad heart’

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A.C. Bradley on Emilia and the handkerchief

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‘Her stupidity in this matter is gross, but it is stupidity and nothing worse’

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A.C. Bradley on Emilia’s relationship with the audience

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‘She is the only person who utters for us the violent common emotions which we feel, together with those more tragic emotions which she does not comprehend’

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Thomas D. Bowman on Emilia and the handkerchief

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‘the unconscious victim of tragic error’

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Thomas D. Bowman on Emilia’s character

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‘unswervingly loyal in her sentiments’

‘sensible in her moral standards’

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Thomas D. Bowman on Emilia’s speech in 4.3

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‘a most fervent and eloquent defence of sex equality and the single standard of morality’

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Matt Simpson on Emilia’s effect on Desdemona

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Emilia underscores Desdemona’s lack of knowledge of the world

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Matt Simpson on Emilia’s death

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‘she dies in the service of truth’

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Matt Simpson on the position of wives

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‘wives are required to be obedient’

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Graham Bradshaw on Emilia and Iago

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‘they are twin products of a loveless and barren marriage’

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John McRae on Emilia’s speech in 4.3

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‘great feminist, humanist manifesto’