Othello was written by William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan playwright who authored Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night. In Othello, Iago sets in motion a carefully thought out plan to drive Othello insane with jealousy. Even though Iago is caught in the end, he ...
In this interpretation, comedians and jokes pose more of a threat to the “pretentious, high minded, self-congratulatory BS” handed down by cultural elites informing us that “punching down” is never funny, than it does to groups presumed to be powerless. It is also hard to know how ...