Emilia critics

• she corrects Desdemona's occasional naivete - Carol Thomas
• steals the handkerchief due to the "wifely virtues silence, obedience, and prudence" - Carol Thomas
• "Emilia, stealing the handkerchief, is the catalyst for the play's crisis" - Carol Thomas
• "She dies in the service of the truth" - Simpsom
• "Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed feminity" -Bayley
• "Often simplified and misrepresented" - Honigmann