Critics: Tragedy

Question 1

Kastan

Answer 1

‘Tragedy for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering.’

Question 2

Nuttall

Answer 2

‘despise the pleasurable and to value the disturbing.’

‘an audience… were to delight in the fall of one greater than they.’

Question 3

Bradley

Answer 3

‘his fall produces a sense of contrast, of the powerlessness of man, and of the omnipotence - perhaps the caprice - of Fortune or Fate, which no tale of private life can possibly rival.’

Question 4

Mack

Answer 4

‘madness has a further dimension as insight’.

Question 5

John Wain

Answer 5

‘Othello is a tragedy of misunderstanding.’ (Among characters and self-understanding)