Critical Quotes - Othello

Critical Quotes - Othello

1. “Iago stands supreme among Shakespeare's evil characters because the greatest intensity and subtlety of imagination have gone into his making" - Kenneth McLeish and Stephen Unwin

2. "Othello is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies."

3. "As a Moor, he is clearly presented as Other, but not necessarily an offensive Other; the qualifier noble Moor does not extricate him from the realm of the exotic, yet it undermines the perception of him as evil." - Frances Teague.

4. "At first glance she would seem to confirm Othello's fears about the irrepressible sensuality of women that leads husbands to their horned fate. … Worse than that, however, Emilia demystifies the prevailing view that this kind of sexual duplicity is virtually genetic in women." - Elliott Butler-Evans.