OTHELLO CRITICS

• Greer: 'It is only Othello's jealousy,not Iago's hatred,that is the real tragedy'
• Serkins: 'He is you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings'
• Tyan: 'Othello is the most easily jealous man anyone has ever written about'
• Bradley: 'A blackness suddenly intervenes between his eyes and the world'
• Sehgal: 'Jealousy is exhausting.Its a hungry emotion and it must be satisfied'
• Sehgal: 'Jealousy makes us all mature novelists'
• Sehgal: 'Jealousy trains us to look with intensity not accuracy'
• Garner: 'The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she,a white woman,weds a black'
• Loomba: 'Women and blacks exist as 'the other''
• Cowhig: 'An alien in a white society'
• Bristol: 'Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution'
• Newman: 'The black moor and fair Desdemona are united in a marriage which all the other characters view as unthinkable'
• Newman: 'To ward of Othello's blackness is the fear of miscegenation'
• Philips: 'Othello's love of Desdemona is the love of possession.She is a prize,a spoil of war'
• Lisa Jardine,feminist reading: 'Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity'
• Feminist: 'See Desdemona as a hideous embodiment of the downtrodden women'
• Wayne: 'Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance'
• Newman: 'Femininity is not opposed to blackness and monstrosity'
• Moran: 'Emilia demonstrates the potency of female rage in the face of violence'
• Coleridge: 'Shakespeare knew it was the perfection of a women to be characterless,but contradicts this in his depiction of Emilia'
• Moran: 'Othello is a play about control,and what happens to women who subvert that control'
• Neely: 'Emilia acts accordingly to 'wifely virtues of silence,obedience and prudence'
• Wayne: 'Handkerchief-Its an emblem of Desdemona's body'
• Newman: 'Possession of women's handkerchief was considered adultery'
• Boose: 'Othello is one way or another a play about marriage'
• Warnken: 'His thoughts and feelings echo Iagos'
• Bradley: 'Hesitation is almost impossible to him.He is extremely self reliant and decides and acts instantaneously'
• Honigmann: 'His humour seems to make him clever thana his victims'
• Bradley: 'Othello is "Usually open to deception'
• West: 'Iago has all the psychological traits of a psychopath'
• Honigmann: 'Dramatic perspective can make us the villains accomplice'
• Warnken: 'He is a solider and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty'
• Simpson: 'She dies in service of the truth'
• Cox: 'Death was preferred to dishonour'
• Kermode: 'Iago is motivated for more than a mere desire for revenge'
• McEvoy: 'The audience becomes complicit in Iago's intention and is soon involved in his vengeful plotting'
• Wayne: 'Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance'
• Honigmann: 'He from the first scene to the last is hated and despised(Iago)'
• O'Toole: 'There is no Othello without Iago'
• Long: 'Othello's "Collapse of identity" is his hamartia'