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1[blank_start]A. C Bradley[blank_end] 1904; Othello is a man of mystery, exoticism and intense feeling, trustful, open, passionate but self-controlled; so noble... he inspires a passion of mingled love and pity.
- AA. C Bradley
- BAnia Loomba
- CMarliyn French
- DF. R. Leavis
2[blank_start]William Hazlitt[blank_end] 1817; Iago is an example of the typical stage Machiavel who personifies rationality, self-interest, hypocrisy, cunning, expediency and efficient 'police', he is an amoral artist who seeks to fashion the world in his own interest.
- AWilliam Hazlitt
- BS. T Coleridge
- CSamuel Johnson
- DF. R. Leavis
3Which are critical interpretations made by Samuel Johnson, 1765?
- AThere is in this play some burlesque, some humour and ramble comical wit, some show and mimicry to divert the spectators; but the tragical heart is none other than a bloody farce, without salt or savour.
- BOthello- inflexible in his resolution, and obdurate in his revenge.
- CIago is a being next to the devil only not quite devil- and this Shakespeare has attempted- and executed- without disgust, without scandal.
- DThe cool malignity of Iago, silent in his resentment, subtle in his designs, and studious at once of his interest and his vengeance.
- EThe soft simplicity of Desdemona, confident of merit, unconscious of innocence, her artless perseverance in her suit, and her slowness to suspect that she can be suspected.
- FBy far the most romantic figure among Shakespeare's heroes... he does not belong to our world, and he seems to enter it we know not whence- almost as if from wonderland.
4[blank_start]Kiernan Ryan[blank_end] 1989; In loving and marrying each other, Othello and Desdemona instinctively act according to principals of [blank_start]racial equality[blank_end] and sexual freedom which are still not normative, still far from generally accepted and practised even in our own day, let alone in Shakespeare's. Shakespeare's tragic protagonist are all overpowered by the prevailing [blank_start]social and ideological tides[blank_end] which sweep them unawares out of their depth, rather than by some metaphysically [blank_start]predestined[blank_end] misfortune or by some [blank_start]flaw[blank_end], whether culpable, haphazard or innate, in composition of their characters.
- AKiernan Ryan
- Bracial equality
- Csocial and ideological tides
- Dflaw
- Epredestined
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