tillyard?
classic machiavellian villain-cold,manipulative and driven by self-interest
Greenblatt?
Iago is a self-fashioning, shaping personas to control others
Bradley?
lacking tragic purpose
Bradley?
Iago is not merely evil but driven by very human motives; jealously, resentment and frustration
leavis
Othello’s downfall is due Othello’s own flaws not Iago’s power
Coleridge
motiveless malignity
French
enforces the patriarchal control and viewing women as object
loomba
he weaponies racial stereotypes and he voices the white Venetian anxieties
bloom
see Iago as performer due his linguistic power
cavell
emphasises Iago’s ability to create doubt- induces the Othello distrust the very foundations of love and knowledge
booth
Calls Iago as a reliable narrator of unreliability-he manipulates the audience though soliloquies
long
Othello’s collapse of identity
Cowell
tragedy arises from a horror of female sexuality
O’toole
border of individual character to become permeable
leavis
no tragic self discovery
