Timon of Athens (Vol. 89) | Sharon O'Dair (essay date 2000)
Sharon O'Dair (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: O'Dair, Sharon. “Aping Aristocrats: Timon of Athens and the Anticipation of Intellectuals.” In Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars, pp. 43-66. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, O'Dair discusses Shakespeare's views on economics and social status as presented in Timon of Athens.]
In explaining to Roderigo why he continues to serve Othello when he no longer feels “in any just term … affin'd / To love the Moor,” Iago distinguishes between two kinds of servants and two kinds of service:
You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time much like...
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