OTHELLO CRITICS-Iago

"He is anything but straightforward"

Honingmann

"Dramatic perspective can make us the villains accomplice"

Honigmann

"Iago shows the venomous rage of a society whose foundations are rocked by the mere fact of Desdemonas and Othello's marriage"

Kieran Ryan

"Noble nature was wrought on by an accomplice and artful villain"

Coleridge

"Iago has all the psychological traits of a psychopath"

Fred West

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

Valarie Wayne

"His humour seems to make him clever thana his victims"-

Honignmann

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

Frank Kermode

"The chief humourist of the play"

Auden