🎭 The green-eyed monster - Learn English vocabulary & idioms with 'Shakespeare Speaks'
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It was late afternoon. William Shakespeare
has just arrived at his favourite pub,
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The Duck and Whistle.
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His actor friend Thomas Swann is already there.
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Mr Will. Can you do something about that Mr Thomas?
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He's been drinking and shouting all afternoon.
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If you can't shut him up, I'm going to throw him out.
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I'm a wonderful husband. I give the woman
everything and this is how she treats me!
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Be quiet, you silly old fool. See, Mr Will?
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His head's full of jealous nonsense about his wife.
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That Robert Harley said he saw her talking
to Henry Darcy, and now he's all in a rage...
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That filthy toad... I'll burn his house down...
and when I get my hands on her...
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Oh dear. The green-eyed monster attacks again!
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Hmm. Jealousy: the green-eyed monster.
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You're right Mr Will, jealousy is a monster: it gets inside people, eats them up.
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Makes them think the worst, like Mr Thomas
here, makes them say and do terrible things.
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The green-eyed monster. It's rather clever,
isn’t it Bess?
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It's in my play, Othello. The evil Iago warns
his friend,
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Othello, about the dangers of jealousy. He says:
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Beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
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The meat it feeds on.
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Beware the green-eyed monster... that's good advice!
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It is good advice indeed, but Iago's true
plan is to make Othello believe that
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Desdemona, his wife, is cheating on him.
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And is she?
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No, but Iago knows jealousy makes people do crazy things, and his plan works.
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Othello murders Desdemona!
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That's terrible. Poor Desdemona! We'd better
keep an eye on that Mr Thomas!
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We'll leave them there for now.
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The green-eyed monster rears its ugly head
and brings out all my insecurities.
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I don't like it if Yvonne is out without me.
I just can't help it.
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I thought I'd got over my ex, but when I saw
him with his new girlfriend,
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the green-eyed monster got me.
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And now I must go home: Mrs Shakespeare feels
that I've been spending rather too much time
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in the pub. Come on, Thomas...
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Ooooh - it sounds like Mrs S has got the green-eyed
monster too!
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Come on, Will! Stay for another beer!
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Hmmm... To stay, or not to stay: that's a
tricky question.
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