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22 Cards in this Set
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
"(Othello) was a gallant Moor...of royal blood...whose noble nature was so wrought on...by an unaccomplished and artful villain." |
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A.C. BRADLEY |
"He is to save Desdemona from herself, not in hate but in honour; in honour and also in love." |
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T.S. ELIOT |
"I have never read a more terrible exposure of human weakness - of universal human weakness - than the last great speech of Othello." |
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ANTHONY BRENNAN |
"In (Othello's) final speech and suicide he is able, as he was before the senate of Venice, to express his nobility and to manifest himself rightly." |
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HELEN GARDNER |
"He (Iago) is monstrous because, faces with the manifold richness of experience, his only reaction is calculation and the desire to manipulate." |
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IAN SMITH |
"The handkerchief has been regarded as a unifying motif for the dramatic action." |
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F.R. LEAVIS |
"The final speech conveys something like the full complexity of Othello's simple nature, and in the total effect the simplicity is tragic and grand." |
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PETER BUNTEN |
"Bianca reflects the paradox of Venetian sexual morality." |
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A.C. BRADLEY |
"Desdemona is helplessly passive." |
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DOSTOYEVSKY |
"Iago was not jealous, he was trustful." |
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W.H. AUDEN |
"Iago is motivated by the desire to know and show what Othello is really like." |
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A.C. BRADLEY |
"We trust him (Cassio) absolutely to never pervert the truth for the sake of some doctrine or purpose of his own."
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A.C. BRADLEY |
"Her (Emilia) stupidity in this matter is gross, but it is stupidity and nothing worse." |
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MATT SIMPSON |
"Emilia underscores Desdemona's lack of knowledge in the world." |
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MATT SIMPSON |
"We have to acknowledge the fact that wives are required to be obedient to understand Emilia's handing over of the handkerchief." |
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JARVIS |
"A whores death for all her innocence." |
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MARIAN COX |
"He (Iago) is the black sheep and resists this state of affairs by turning everyone else black rather than allowing them to feel superior in their whiteness." |
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BLAKE |
"He (Iago) publishes doubt and calls it knowledge." |
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COWHIG |
"Iago is eaten up with sexual jealousy." |
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MATT SIMPSON |
"In a sense, what Othello is doing is executing the Iago under his own skin." |
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MARIAN COX |
"It is questionable how how noble it is to marry secretly without permission." (Othello) |
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LOOMBA |
"Women and blacks exist as the 'other'." |
