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Ralph Allen Smith
Othello is an everyman character mimicking Adam in a Catholic morality play
Doris Tishkoff
Madonna/Whore complex in relation to Desdemona
Margaret Loftus Ranald
Desdemona would not have been seen as the perfect Jacobean woman due to her sociability and wit
Coppelia Kahn
The obsession with cuckoldry was based in misogyny and a male belief that women were inherently lustful.
Virginia Mason Vaughan
Family is the state in microcosm
Lisa Jardine
3 women of 3 separate social ranks and yet all experience the same outrage to accusations of sexual misconduct, a united female experience.
Sam Mendes
Desdemona makes huge plot altering decisions and is therefore not weak or submissive.
Karen Newman
In the time, Black men were associated with ‘tainting’ sexual partners- a metaphorical blackness for the partner and a literal one for the child produced.
Elena Arsenteva
Genesis began the idiom of a black sheep, associating black with ‘otherness’
Ruth Cowhig
Weird that Shakespeare goes against stereotypes to present Othello as a hero when he obeyed stereotypes fine with Aaron in Titus Andronicus.
Edward Said
Orientalism