Othello Critical Views

Paster

Desdemona’s fate in the bedroom scene is universal. We know our own vulnerability and we could all be Desdemona.

Stubbs

Desdemona’s devotion to Othello is characterised by an enormous naivety.

Leavis

Othello has a propensity to jealousy and possess a weak character.

Ryan

Iago’s malignity is not a monstrous deviation from Venetian norm but its mirror image and Iago makes us complicit.

Greenblatt

Desdemona’s marriage was an attempt to gain power.

Bailey

Emilia is the mouthpiece for repressed feminism