| “for all his dignity and massive calm… he is by nature full of the most vehement passion” | A C Bradley |
| “pity itself vanishes, and love and admiration remains” | A C Bradley |
| Othello is “cheering himself up” | T S Elliot |
| “The speech conveys something like the full complexity of Othello’s simple nature, and in total effect the simplicity is tragic and grand.” | F R Leavis |
| “The quiet beginning gives us the man of action with his habit of effortless authority.” | F R Leavis |
| “He speaks his last words as the stern fighting man who has done the state some service… it is a superb coup de theatre.” | F R Leavis |
| “his habit of self-approving self-dramatisation” | F R Leavis |
| “Othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay.” | F R Leavis |
Othello – Final Speech
August 7, 2019