English

• Carl Phillips - Desdemona


  "Othello's love of Desdemona is 'the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war"
• Honigman


  Iago is clever, but his failure to comprehend the power of love - in particular Emilia's love for Desdemona - is his downfall.
• Bonnie Greer


  "it is only "Othello's jealousy, not Iago's hatred, that is the real tragedy"
• Thomas Rymer


  The play's setting and change was necessary
• F.R Leavis


  "Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello's character."
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge


  motiveless malignity
• JEALOUSY - Bonnie Greer


  "it is only "Othello's jealousy, not Iago's hatred, that is the real tragedy"
• JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins


  "He is not the devil. He's you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings"
• JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins


  "He's you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings."
• JEALOUSY - Kenneth Tyan


  " Othello is the most easily jealous man that anybody's ever written about"
• JEALOUSY - A.C Bradley


  "a blackness suddenly intervenes between his eyes and the world"
• RACE - S N Garner


  "The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man."
• RACE - Anita Loomba


  "Women and Blacks exist as 'the other'."
• RACE - Ruth Cowhig


  "An alien in a white society." (OTHELLO)
• RACE - Michael D Bristol


  "Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution."
• GENDER - Anita Loomba


  "Women and Blacks exist as 'the other'."
• GENDER - Caryl Phillips

  "Othello's love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war."
• GENDER - Lisa Jardine, feminist reading


  "Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity."
• GENDER - Valerie Wayne


  "Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance."
• SEX AND MARRIAGE - S N Garner


  "The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man."
• SEX AND MARRIAGE - Carol Neely

  "Emilia acts according to "wifely virtues of silence, obedience, and prudence."
• SEX AND MARRIAGE - Karen Newman


  "Possession of a woman's handkerchief was considered adultery"
• SEX AND MARRIAGE - Lynda Boose


  "Othello is one way or another a play about marriage."
• MANIPULATION - E.A.J Honigman


  "His humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims."
• WARFARE - Caryl Phillips


  "Othello's love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war."
• HATE - Bonnie Greer


  "it is only Othello jealousy, not Iago's hatred, that is the real tragedy."
• HATE - Frank Kermode


  "Iago is motivated by more than a mere desire for revenge."
• IDENTITY - Henry L Warnken

  "He is a soldier and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty."
• IDENTITY - Andy Serkins


  "He's you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings."
• IDENTITY - T S Elliot


  "Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello's character."
• IDENTITY - O'Toole


  'there is no Othello without Iago
• Venice was associated with power, romance and high culture, an appropriate setting for the Othello–Desdemona love match.
• Assertive women were a threat to the social order
• Shakespeare has structured the play in such a way that the audience will question the difference between appearance and reality from the start
• Carol Neely - "Emilia acts according to wifely virtues of silence obedience and prudence'
• Lisa Jardine - assertive/ confident/ bold / decisive Desdemona 


  ‘Too-knowing, too independent’
• Wilson-Knight Othello good speech

  ‘a serenity of though’