Othello – Critical Theory – Jealousy + Masculinity
Loomba - “The central conflict in Othello is between the racism of a white patriarchy and the
threat posed to it by both a black man and a white woman”
Karen Newman - “The play exposes the fear of racial and sexual difference of Renaissance
culture”
Kiernan Ryan - “His malignity is not a monstrous deviation from the venetian norm but its mirror
image”
Sean McEvoy - “He is living the life of a chivalric warrior in a world run by money and self-
interest.”
E.A.J Honigmann - “Iago enjoys a Godlike sense of power”
Thomas Rhymer - “Iago is too villainous to be believed”
Coleridge - “Iago has the motive hunting of a motiveless malignity”
Loomba - “The central conflict in Othello is between the racism of a white patriarchy and the
threat posed to it by both a black man and a white woman”
Karen Newman - “The play exposes the fear of racial and sexual difference of Renaissance
culture”
Kiernan Ryan - “His malignity is not a monstrous deviation from the venetian norm but its mirror
image”
Sean McEvoy - “He is living the life of a chivalric warrior in a world run by money and self-
interest.”
E.A.J Honigmann - “Iago enjoys a Godlike sense of power”
Thomas Rhymer - “Iago is too villainous to be believed”
Coleridge - “Iago has the motive hunting of a motiveless malignity”
