CRITICS

Othello

Bradley: “Othello is…by far the most romantic figure among Shakespeare’s heroes"

“he stirs…in most readers a passion of mingled love and pity”

Philips: Othello “subconsciously acknowledges the social pressure he is under”

Newman: “Othello’s blackness is the fear of miscegenation”

Eliot: accuses Othello of “self-dramatization…to avoid reality and responsibility”

Ryan: Othello “unconsciously shares the white perception of his blackness…a patriarchal concept of masculinity”

Desdemona

Philips: claims love between couples is the “love of possession”

Svendsen: “an embodiment as well as a victim of a structurally racist hierarchy”

Ryan: the handkerchief “links the three couples together to highlight what they have in common”

Neely: “friendship between women is established”

Iago

Coleridge: “a motiveless malignity”

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