Othello anthology critics

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A.C Bradley
"he falls suddenly from the height of earthly greatness to the dust" "his fall produces a sense of contrast, of the powerlessness of man"
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S.T Coleridge
"The motive hunting of motiveless malignity" (Iago)
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E.A.J Honigmann
"the play's chief humorist" "he enjoys a god-like sense of power"
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W.H Auden
"A practical joker of a pecularily appealing kind."
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Dr Johnson
"is from first scene to last hated and despised." "the intellectual activity which prompts them to overleap those moral fences."
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F.R Leavis
"his habit of effortless authority" (Othello) "self-dramatizing"
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Ania Loomba
"Both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance, and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence." "the inherent duplicity of women" "Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones."
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Ania Loomba
"A capacity for tenderness as well as a propensity to violence."
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Kastan
"Tragedy is the genre of uncompensated suffering."
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"The motive hunting of motiveless malignity" (Iago)

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S.T Coleridge

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"the play's chief humorist" "he enjoys a god-like sense of power"

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"A practical joker of a pecularily appealing kind."

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"is from first scene to last hated and despised." "the intellectual activity which prompts them to overleap those moral fences."

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