critical interpretations

Cards (7)

Coleridge 
on Iago, "a motiveless malignity" and "next to the devil"
A.C. Bradley 
on Othello, "the most romantic figure among Shakespeare's heroes"
French 
on Desdemona, "accepts her culture's dictum that she must be obedient to males"
E. Honigmann 
on Iago, "the play's chief humorise" "he enjoys a God like sense of power"
Booth 
on Iago, "lithe and sinuous as a snake"
O'Toole 
"there is no Othello without Iago"
J. Wain 
"the assassination of love by non-love"