![]() Before this, all the characters, whether male or female, were played exclusively by men. This production is of particular importance because it marked the first time a woman was accepted on the English stage. One performance of Othello, produced in 1660, starred an actress by the name of Margaret Hughes in the role of Desdemona. Many of Shakespeare's plays have fallen in and out of favour throughout the centuries, but Othello has remained one of his most popular. Shakespeare's Allusions to his Profession Life in Stratford (trades, furniture, hygiene) Life in Stratford (structures and guilds) Her sad behavior feeds his vulture folly. ![]() While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth: Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally, A similar vision was in the poet's mind when he constructed The Rape of Lucrece: What a vivid picture this interpretation gives us of jealousy, tormenting the mind of the jealous man with a barrage of suspicions before it consumes him completely. It seems very simply that Shakespeare was imagining a cat (known for its giant green eyes), delighting in tormenting (mocking) its victim (meat) before devouring it. It all becomes a bit silly and would no doubt give Shakespeare himself a good chuckle. Others have listed off surprising candidates for the monster, including a dragonfly and an ape. Some editors have even changed mock to make in order to fit their annotations - Hanmer and Hudson being the most famous. But what exactly is the green-eyed monster? It seems every editor has a different take on this passage, with many trying to make the lines work around the concept of green as sickly. We are all familiar with the above quote, as it is one of Shakespeare's most famous. How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania,ĭidst not thou lead him through the glimmering nightĪnd make him with fair Aegles break his faith, How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,Ī spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,Īnd yet partake no venom, for his knowledge Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, Is gone with her along, and I must after,įor love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy. Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger. The meat it feeds on that cuckold lives in bliss It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife, Hath leap'd into my seat the thought whereofĭoth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,Įach toy seems prologue to some great amiss:Īs doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,Īnd shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,Īnd meant to wreck thee but, beshrew my jealousy! I am sorry that with better heed and judgment It does from childishness: can Fulvia die? ![]() Though age from folly could not give me freedom, I kiss'd it and it gave me present hunger Of that most delicate lodging: by my life, Worthy the pressing-lies a mole, right proud My wife is nothing nor nothing have these nothings,įor further satisfying, under her breast. The covering sky is nothing Bohemia nothing Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing? Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyesīlind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only, Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift? Of breaking honesty-horsing foot on foot? Of laughing with a sigh?-a note infallible Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame Thou blushest, Antony and that blood of thine Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?Ĭall in the messengers. Is come from Caesar therefore hear it, Antony. You must not stay here longer, your dismission Enjoy the following collection of quotations on jealousy and please click on the play to see explanatory notes and facts about each play. The theme of jealousy appears, to a lesser extent, in many other plays. ![]() This is not the case with Shakespeare's best-known exploration of the "green-eyed monster" - Othello, which ends with the murder of Desdemona and the moral destruction of our tragic hero. Although they bring us to the brink of tragedy, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale end with the defeat of jealousy, and so they are considered comedies. Few moments in Shakespeare's plays are as intense as that in which Posthumus comes to believe that Imogen has slept with Iachimo ( Cymbeline, 2.4). Jealousy and the suffering it inflicts on lovers is at the heart of Shakespeare's later romances, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale.
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