Shakespearean Critical perspectives

Critics; quotes, perspectives, views on themes for writing within Othello exam and providing further commentary on the play

Ania Loomba

Discusses the role of race and colonialism in relation to Shakespeare's plays

Specific to Othello; she questions both the sterotypes of Black people and muslims within the play, and contemporary Venecian & English society

Looma Critical Quote prompts

• ‘victim of racial beliefs because he's an agent of misogynist ones'

  • Exposing how manipulation of his hamartia, causes Othello to being inflicting his pain onto others

• ‘Venice's openness could be viewed as dangerous by a society suspicious of outsiders'

  • critcism of English society, being distrusting or rejecting of newcomers or abnormalities in society can risk causing tragedy

David Kastan

Kastan critical quote prompts

Nuttall

Bradley

Mack

Honigmann

F R Leavis

Carol Neely

Harold Bloom

Professor Lisa Hopkins

Kim Hall

Michael Long

O'Toole

‘borders of individual character to become permeable’

Flanagan