I think he chooses to be so out of pure spite, directed partly at Othello, but also at the audience/reader. He has completed his task. The STORY of Othello is now, irrevocably, a tragedy. Not revealing himself is the only thing he can do to do more harm.
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Replying to @EveKeneinan
Isn't it "the mystery of iniquity?" Why did Iago destroy Othello and his whole household? There is a darkness of mystery.
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Replying to @Inkling1016
Yes, but I am saying that Iago KNOWS this, is deliberately does the one thing to can to still hurt us: spitefully deny us any more Iago. You know if this would have been written in modern times, Iago would end up the main character in the sequel, ala Hannibal Lector.
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Replying to @EveKeneinan @Inkling1016
Iago rubs the darkness of the mystery of evil in our faces, so to speak. He mocks us at our inability to fathom evil.
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Replying to @Inkling1016 @EveKeneinan
Rymer and others criticized Iago as not really being a believable character, and the whole plot not making a whole lot of sense.
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Replying to @gtaogle @EveKeneinan
Don't buy it. I've heard that kind of complain before. W.H. Auden complained that the characters in Hamlet were pitiful and there was no plot when in fact I find it to be profoundly coherent and, IMO, the greatest play ever produced in western civilization.
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Replying to @Inkling1016 @EveKeneinan
I do, there seems to be a pattern that Shakespeare's tragedies (and English tragedy, it seems) aren't that great, at least not compared to the comedies. Rymer goes deeper and shows how the timing is off and so on, Othello is about spectacle and speeches, plot is sloppy.
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Replying to @gtaogle @EveKeneinan
Are you kidding? The tragedies destroy the comedies. They are extraordinarily complex and well developed.
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Replying to @Inkling1016 @EveKeneinan
No, I agree with the poets here, being a poet. They are about producing good spectacles (scenes of violence and so forth) and intriguing and bracing speeches - Hamlet is known for its speeches, not for anyone understanding what happened
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here is the link to Rymer's work, anyway. It's worth reading and consideringhttps://books.google.com/books?id=AN4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP8#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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