Critics and Other Interpretations.

Critics from the past:
Thomas Rymer was one of the play’s earliest critics; he produced a commentary on the play in A Short View of Tragedy (1693). His writing is available here: http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/spycee/rymer.html


You will notice his negative tone and almost complete condemnation of the play.
Dr Johnson, on the other hand, had nothing but praise for the play. In his preface in 1765 he wrote: ‘... are such proofs of Shakespeare’s skill in human nature, as, I suppose, it is vain to seek in any modern writer.’ http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/othello.html

In the nineteenth century Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote an essay on the play, referring to Iago as, ‘a being next to devil,’: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/essays/othello_essay.htm 

More recent critics:
I have tried to find some recent critics interpretations of Othello but most have been put under copy write I have however found several books that may be of use.

Marilyn French wrote Shakespeare's Division of Experience (London: Abacus, 1982). An extract is available here:
http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/sh-othello-french.htm

Lisa Jardine discusses the role of Desdemona, and the way in which she is trapped by a masculine world, in her book Still Harping on Daughters, 1983.

In his 1986 book, Power on Display, Leonard Tennenhouse explores the violence against female characters in plays of the time and links it to politics.

In Ania Loomba’s work, Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1987), she discusses both gender and race.

Karen Newman explored both issues of race and sexuality in a 1987 chapter in the book Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology.