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