➢ Nuttall - tragic joy delight in the fall
➢ Melville - Iago perverts other characters best qualities against them
➢ Simpson - Bianca is an outsider like Othello
➢ Bradley- fall from a high degree. Instantaneous would not suffice. The tragedy is that
Othello is exceptionally noble and is manipulated by Iago
➢ Honingmann - Iago is the play’s chief humourist. short/long term strategies
➢ Honingmann - Desdemona is the strongest character
➢ Kastan - fall from prosperity to wretchedness
➢ Watson - protestant morality play
➢ Knight - othello music
➢ Tennehouse- women are punished for their sexuality. Desdekona must die
➢ Jardine - women are passive in adversity. Desdemona punished for being too knowing
➢ Loomba- jealousy rooted in difference
➢ Loomba- victim of racial beliefs so becomes an agent of misogynist ones
➢ Smith- handkerchief a symbol of infidelity
➢ Parker- two visions Platea
➢ Hopkins - calvinism
➢ A Lapide- women are ornaments of men
➢ French- Desdemona accepts that she must be obedient to men. Men holding all the
power in the play and society
➢ Leavis- no tragic self discovery. Othello is deeply flawed and self-centred
➢ Coleridge - motiveless malignity. Iago is next to the devil
➢ Berry - Othello is set apart for his language and exoticism
➢ Vanita - role of husbands is typical
➢ Hollindale - Othello and Iago the main characters. Desdemona is auxiliary
➢ James - a play about jealousy not otherness
➢ Rymer - Othello isn’t a real tragedy because it is unrealistic
➢ T S Eliot - Othello’s final speech a sign of weakness. Othello grieves himself more than
desdemona
➢ Jardine - Desdemona punished for being too knowing and independent
➢ Melville - Iago perverts other characters best qualities against them
➢ Simpson - Bianca is an outsider like Othello
➢ Bradley- fall from a high degree. Instantaneous would not suffice. The tragedy is that
Othello is exceptionally noble and is manipulated by Iago
➢ Honingmann - Iago is the play’s chief humourist. short/long term strategies
➢ Honingmann - Desdemona is the strongest character
➢ Kastan - fall from prosperity to wretchedness
➢ Watson - protestant morality play
➢ Knight - othello music
➢ Tennehouse- women are punished for their sexuality. Desdekona must die
➢ Jardine - women are passive in adversity. Desdemona punished for being too knowing
➢ Loomba- jealousy rooted in difference
➢ Loomba- victim of racial beliefs so becomes an agent of misogynist ones
➢ Smith- handkerchief a symbol of infidelity
➢ Parker- two visions Platea
➢ Hopkins - calvinism
➢ A Lapide- women are ornaments of men
➢ French- Desdemona accepts that she must be obedient to men. Men holding all the
power in the play and society
➢ Leavis- no tragic self discovery. Othello is deeply flawed and self-centred
➢ Coleridge - motiveless malignity. Iago is next to the devil
➢ Berry - Othello is set apart for his language and exoticism
➢ Vanita - role of husbands is typical
➢ Hollindale - Othello and Iago the main characters. Desdemona is auxiliary
➢ James - a play about jealousy not otherness
➢ Rymer - Othello isn’t a real tragedy because it is unrealistic
➢ T S Eliot - Othello’s final speech a sign of weakness. Othello grieves himself more than
desdemona
➢ Jardine - Desdemona punished for being too knowing and independent
