Ania Loomba
‘Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance, and nightmare of racial hatred and male violence.’
F.R. Leavis
Othello’s downfall comes largely as a consequence of ‘ignorance of self’
- supports notion that his fatal flaw is his failure to fully integrate himself with Venetian culture
Solomon Plaatje
‘nobility and valour, like depravity and cowardice, are not the monopoly of any colour’