Othello Critics Flashcards
(58 cards)
Caryl Phillips
“Othello’s love for Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize a spoil of war”
Caryl Phillips - Othello
“Othello is a man of action, not a thinker. ”
Mack
“The female is doomed never to be believed”
Simpson
“Emilia underscores Desdemona’s lack of Knowledge in the world”
A.C Bradley - Desdemona
“Her nature is infinitely sweet and her love absolute” - Desdemona
Lisa Jardine - Desdemona
“Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity”
Andy Serkins – Played Iago
“He is not the devil. He’s you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings”
Coleridge on Iago
“Motiveness malignency”
Honigmann - Iago
“(Iago is the) clerevest person in the play”
A.C Bradley - Othello
“Othello is a sympathetic and noble character whose downfall is created by a being of pure evil”
T.S Elliot
“Othello is responsible for his own downfall”
Kenneth Tyan - jelous
“Othello is easily the most jealous man that anyone’s ever written about”
Bradley
“Othello is unusually open to deception”
Carol Thomas
“she is dramatically and symbolically the plays fulcrum” – Emilia
A.E.J Honingham
“fear of Iago” – explains Emilias behaviour
Matt Simpson
“she dies in the service of the truth” - Emilia
Spencer
“Cassio is a foil character”
Ridley - Rodrigo
“He is a pathetic figure…trying to swim in a sea much to rough for him” – Rodrigo
Andrew Hadfield
Venice “a critical Utopian space” – seemingly ideal society where tensions are brewing beneath the surface
Lynda Boose
“Othello is one way or another a play about marriage”
Greenblat
“Othello is both a monster and a hero”
O’Toole
“Iago’s success lies in Othello’s readiness to respond”
Bayley
“Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed femininity”
Jardine - Desdemona
Desdemona is “too knowing, too independent”
