Othello, Shakespeare's tragic drama, has much to say about women and the attitudes of social groups and individuals towards them. Let's examine, from top to bottom, from general to lower rank, these perspectives on women and other feminine considerations. Kenneth Muir, in the Introduction to William Shakespeare: Othello, explains the Moor's blind ignorance of his conquered wife: Iago begins his temptation the following morning, and is able to exploit Othello's relative ignorance of his wife. This ignorance is only partly due to the fact that they did not have the opportunity to live together. This is due to a number of other factors. Othello is of royal birth but has earned a place of distinction in the service of the Venetian state thanks to his military prowess. He confesses the one-sidedness of his experience (I.3.86-7): I can speak little more of this great world than of feats of cooking and battle. . . . (32)The violence against women in this drama is unpleasant to most audiences. AC Bradley, in his book of literary criticism, Shakespearean Tragedy, describes the violence against the heroine as a “sin against the canons of art”: To some readers, once again, parts of Othello appear shocking or even horrific. They think – if I may formulate their objection – that in these parts Shakespeare has sinned against the canons of art, by representing on the stage a violence or brutality whose effect is needlessly painful and rather sensational than tragic. The passages that thus offend are probably those already cited: the one in which Othello hits Desdemona (IV.i.251), the one in which he pretends to treat her like a guest in a house of ill repute (IV.i... .. . half of sheet....... Ed. Clarice Swisher: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from Literature.: Random House, 1986. Gardner, Helen of Beauty and Fortune. "Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from "The Noble Moor, no. 9, 1955. Heilman, Robert B. "Wit and Witchcraft: An Approach to Othello. “Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Ed. Leonard F. Dean Rpt The Sewanee Review, LXIV, 1 (Winter 1956), 1-4, 8-10; Arizona Quarterly (Spring 1956), pp.5-16.Muir, Kenneth William Shakespeare: Othello New York: Penguin Books, 1968.Shakespeare, William In The Electric Princeton University. //www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines nn.