Critics - Othello

• Loomba: '"love and violence in the play are crucially cut up"'
• Loomba: '"Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance"'
• O'Toole: 'Iago is the 'Machiavellian villain''
• O'Toole: ''there is no Othello without Iago''
• Koomba: 'Othello is a victim of racial beliefs because is an agent of misogyny'
• Raatzch: 'the phonetic affinity between 'ego' and 'Iago''
• A.C Bradley: 'Othello's misplaced trust is not a sign of stupidity but rather a sign of Othello's trusting nature'
• Rosenberg: 'Iago is an 'embodiment of satan itself''
• Lisa Gardine: ''Renaissance women were often seen as suffering martyrs''
• Rymer: '' a woman without sense because she married a blackamoor''
• Bradley: 'Othello is entirely blameless, has to explain why anyone would hate him enough to kill him, so sites the main complexity of the play within Iago's character'
• Bradley: '"a great heap of contradictions"'
• Leavis: 'Iago 'sufficiently convincing as a person''
• Leavis: 'Tragedy is due to othellos shortcomings'
• Leavis: 'His feelings for Desdemona 'it may be loce but it can only be an oddly qualified sense of love for her''
• Leavis: ''the essential traitor is within the gates''
• J.Wain: ''the assassination of love by non love' the assignation of iago being 'less than a complete human being because love had been left out of his composition''
• Bradley: ''Iago was destroyed by the power that he attacked, the power of love; and he was destroyed by it because he could not understand it; and he could not understand it because it was not in him''
• Honningham: ''Iago is undone by the power of love''
• D Brown: ''Othellos tragedy is that his loce which could've co existed with his military career easily is destroyed by masculine code at one of its basest elements''
• Alicia Fleming Stzobryn: '' Though Iago seems over confident, he is plagued by fear of both emasculation and tarnishing his upstanding reputation''