OTHELLO CRITICS QUOTES

JEALOUSY - Bonnie Greer

"it is only "Othello's jealousy, not Iago's hatred, that is the real tragedy"

JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins

"He is not the devil. He's you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings"

JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins

"He's you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings."

JEALOUSY - Kenneth Tyan

" Othello is the most easily jealous man that anybody's ever written about"

JEALOUSY - A.C Bradley

"a blackness suddenly intervenes between his eyes and the world"

RACE - S N Garner

"The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man."

RACE - Anita Loomba

"Women and Blacks exist as 'the other'."

RACE - Ruth Cowhig

"An alien in a white society." (OTHELLO)

RACE - Michael D Bristol

"Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution."

GENDER - Anita Loomba

"Women and Blacks exist as 'the other'."

GENDER - Caryl Phillips

"Othello's love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war."

GENDER - Lisa Jardine, feminist reading

"Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity."

GENDER - feminist

"See Desdemona as a hideous embodiment of the downtrodden woman".

GENDER - Valerie Wayne

"Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance."

SEX AND MARRIAGE - S N Garner

"The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man."

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Carol Neely

"Emilia acts according to "wifely virtues of silence, obedience, and prudence."

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Valerie Wayne

"Handkerchief - "It is an emblem of Desdemona's body"

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Karen Newman

"Possession of a woman's handkerchief was considered adultery"

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Lynda Boose

"Othello is one way or another a play about marriage."

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Michael D Bristol

"Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution."

MANIPULATION - Harry L Warnken

"His thoughts and feelings echo Iago's"

MANIPULATION - A C Bradley

"Hesitation is almost impossible to him. He is extremely self-reliant and decides and acts instantaneously."

MANIPULATION - E.A.J Honigam

"His humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims."

MANIPULATION - A C Bradley

Othello is "usually open to deception."

MANIPULATION - Fred West

"Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath."

WARFARE - Henry L Warnken

"He is a soldier and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty."

WARFARE - Caryl Phillips

"Othello's love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war."

HATE - Bonnie Greer

"it is only Othello jealousy, not Iago's hatred, that is the real tragedy."

HATE - Valerie Wayne

"Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance."

HATE - Sean McEvoy

"The audience becomes complicit in Iago's intention and, like it or not, is soon involved in his vengeful plotting."

HATE - Frank Kermode

"Iago is motivated by more than a mere desire for revenge."

IDENTITY - Henry L Warnken

"He is a soldier and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty."

IDENTITY - Fred West

"Iago has all the psychological traits of a psychopath."

IDENTITY - Andy Serkins

"He's you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings."

IDENTITY - T S Elliot

"Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello's character."

IDENTITY - O'Toole

'there is no Othello without Iago'