Iago critics

Question 1

Dr Johnson (doctors visits are never fun)

Answer 1

Iago is “so convicted , that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised:

Question 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer 2

“motiveless malignity”
argued I is “a being net to the devil”

Question 3

G.K Hunter - quote

Answer 3

Says I’s racial prejudice means that he wants to make O’s deeds “fit in with the prejudice that his face … excited”

Question 4

G.K Hunter - what

Answer 4

Iago wants to prove that black men are evil (to prove his prejudice right)

Question 5

Ania Loomba

Answer 5

“England was increasingly hostile to foreigners, both officially & at a popular level , & London has witneses several major riots against foreign residents”

Question 6

M.M Mahood

Answer 6

“I’s malice arises from a deep psychological insecirity and fear of inadequacy”

Question 7

Fintan O’toole

Answer 7

“so close are I+O that they start to melt into each other”

Question 8

Frances <3 Dolan ?

Answer 8

“I a representation of ambigous male desire - a man whose sexual jealousy and envy are cloaked in a guise of rationality”

Question 9

Elaine Showalter

Answer 9

“I’s treatment of women reflects the patriarchal mysoginy that underpins his worldview”

Question 10

Stephen Greenblatt (Arianna Greenblatt)

Answer 10

“exemplifies the self-fashioning individual”
“constantly shifting his identity in relation to others”

Question 11

F.R Leavis (thats deep… fr)

Answer 11

“I is a villain of extraordinary complexity , whose motives are never fully explained”

Question 12

A.C Bradley - !!! wow !!!

Answer 12

“evil has nowhere else to be portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago”

Question 13

Harold Bloom

Answer 13

“it is O’s tragedy but I’s play”

Question 14

Samuel Johnson

Answer 14

“the cool malignity of I, silent in his resentment , subtle in his designs”

Question 15

how many lines does I have vs O

Answer 15

1 = 1097
0 = 860

Question 16

Thomas Rhymer (rhymes are not straight facts)

Answer 16

too villanous to be believed

Question 17

E.A.J Honingman (humour)

Answer 17

I’s humour “either intends to give pain or allows him to bask in his own sense of superiority”
also makes him seem “cleverer than his victims”

Question 18

Harold Bloom (harro its me - taylor swift)

Answer 18

“I is an anti-hero who destabilises the play’s attempt at moral clarity”

Question 19

E.A.J Honingman (man… I get what you mean … that’s funny)

Answer 19

S’s “dramatic perspective compels us to see with his eyes and to share his ‘jokes’ “

Question 20

Leah Scragg (scragg = slag = Regina is the most…)

Answer 20

“personifies … self interest , hypocrisy , cunning”