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A. C. Bradley
- Othello was “the most romantic figure among Shakespeare’s heroes ... [he] does not belong to our world”
- “so noble ... [he] inspires a passion of mingled love and pity”
- Othello was “the most romantic figure among Shakespeare’s heroes ... [he] does not belong to our world”
T. S. Eliot
- ‘terrible exposure of human weakness’.
F. R. Leavis
- Iago’s role is ‘subordinate and merely ancillary’
- ‘the stuff of which he is made begins at once to deteriorate and show itself unfit’
- ‘composed very largely of ignorance of self as well as ignorance of her [Desdemona]’
- ‘the stuff of which he is made begins at once to deteriorate and show itself unfit’
- Iago’s role is ‘subordinate and merely ancillary’
Hazlitt
- Iago machiavellian: ‘personifies rationality, self-interest, hypocrisy, cunning, expediency and efficient “policie”’, he is an ‘amoral artist’
Marilyn French
- Desdemona: "accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’
- ‘self-denying in the extreme’
- Desdemona: "accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’
Lisa Jardine
- Desdemona proves to be ‘too- knowing, too-independent’
- ‘The shadow of sexual frailty hovers over’
- Desdemona proves to be ‘too- knowing, too-independent’
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