Johnson (Iago)
‘he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised’
Spinak (Iago)
Iago plays the role of a ‘vice’
Roberts (Iago)
‘a white character, he blackens everything and everyone’
Price (Iago)
‘Iago wears his heart openly, he is able to gain Othello’s trust… but his heart is not what it appears to be’
Hopkins (Iago)
‘His repressed homosexual desire motivates him’
Cox (Iago)
Iago ‘make his superiors his puppets’
Coleridge (Iago)
Iago was ‘next to the devil’; Iago had ‘motiveless malignity’