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The Portrayal of Iago (Humorist (plays the chief humorist, W.H. Auden -…
The Portrayal of Iago
Humorist
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W.H. Auden - 'the joker in the pack' , 'a practical joker of a peculiarly appalling kind
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Superior
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Act 2.1.100-60 Iago is at his most playful, with the impression that he is simply only joking about the role of women, being overshadowd by the awareness that he dislikes the companions he is with
dramtic perspective compels use to see with his eyes, and to share his jokes
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E.A.J Honigmann, 'introduction' Othello 2001
reactions fluctuate on Iago, with moments in the play resulting in moments of sympathy
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clever?
Honigmann disagrees with Harold Goddard's perspective that Iago contains 'he highest intellectual gifts'
Iago excels in short term tactics, not in long term strategy
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despite cleverness; neither felt nor understood emotional and spiritual impulses that ordinary humans had
Evil
'The character of Iago is so conducted that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised' - DR Johnson, poet, essayist and moralist (1709-84
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Dramatic perspective allows the audiences to see the villains accomplices; watching his evil plot unfolding from his point of view