AO5

AO5

1. A.C. Bradley

   • “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
       • ‘admiration and love’
   • English literary scholar

2. T.S Elliot

   • ‘terrible exposure of human weakness’
     • self-dramatisation
   • Literary and social critic

3. Marilyn French

   • ‘accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’ and is ‘self-denying in the extreme’
     • ‘ordinary wisdom of the male world’
   • Radical feminist

4. Leavis

   • ‘composed very largely of ignorance of self as well as ignorance of her [Desdemona]’