Critical Views Of Women: Othello(critics)

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Sir Thomas Elyot (1531)
"A man in his natural perfection is fierce, strong in opinion...The good nature of a women is to be mild...and shamefast"
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John Knox (1558)
"Weak frail, impatient, feeble and foolish: and experience hath declared them to be unconstant, variable, cruel and lacking in spirit of counsel and regiment""
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Thomas Coryat (1611)
"For the Gentlemen do even coope up their wives always within the walls of their houses...So that you shall seldome see a Venetian Gentleman's wife but either at the solemnization of a great marriage, or at the Christening of a Jew "
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Julia Briggs (1983, 1997)
"The question of women's moral equality was as keenly debated in the Renaissance as their intellectual equality had been in the twentieth century."
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William Davies (1614)
"[Italian women were] very lewd and wicked, for even in the ancient city of Rome, there are thousands of lewd living women that pay monthly unto the Pope for the sinful use of their wicked bodies"
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Robert Burton (1616)
"Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husbands but to old men most treacherous..."
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Robert Burton (1616)
"Germany hath not so many drunkards, England Tobacconists, France Dancers, Holland Mariners, as Italy alone hath jealous husbands"
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Cornelius a Lapide (1638)
"Women is an excellent ornament of men since she is granted to man not only to procreate children, and administer the family, but also in possession and...in dominion, over which man may exercise his jurisdiction and authority"
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Cornelius a Lapide -continued-
"the authority of man extends...to reasonable creatures, that is, women and wives"
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A.W.Schlegel (1815)
"angelic...an offering without blemish...full of playful simplicity, softness, and humility...she seems calculated to form the most yielding and tender wife"
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John Quincy Adams (1863)
"Who can sympathise with Desdemona?...she makes the first adavances"
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A.C.Bradley
"the courage and idealism of a saint...Desdemona is helplessly passive...She cannot retaliate even in speech, not, not even in silent feeling"
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Issac Rosenburg (1961)
Desdemona has "a British softness and modesty and an unassimilated Italianate sophistication and aggressiveness "
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Ania Loomba (2002)
"Venetian women were reputed to be particularly licentious. Venice was repeatedly pictured as a city full of whores, and it was often personified as one"
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"Weak frail, impatient, feeble and foolish: and experience hath declared them to be unconstant, variable, cruel and lacking in spirit of counsel and regiment""

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John Knox (1558)

Card 3

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"For the Gentlemen do even coope up their wives always within the walls of their houses...So that you shall seldome see a Venetian Gentleman's wife but either at the solemnization of a great marriage, or at the Christening of a Jew "

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Card 4

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"The question of women's moral equality was as keenly debated in the Renaissance as their intellectual equality had been in the twentieth century."

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Card 5

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"[Italian women were] very lewd and wicked, for even in the ancient city of Rome, there are thousands of lewd living women that pay monthly unto the Pope for the sinful use of their wicked bodies"

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