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Friday, July 4, 2008

Tragedy in KC

Just last night my family attended the K.C. Shakespeare festival. The weather was perfect and the crowded audience was treated to a fantastic piece of theater. While the tragic tale of Othello is not my favorite, it is still Shakespeare and thus worth viewing. If you are ever in KC in late June - early July, the festival is not to be missed. It's free to attend and provides us backwoods folk a little bit of culture. My family looks forward to it each summer.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Othello, 3. 3

Jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous.
Othello, 3. 4

It makes us or it mars us.
Othello, 5. 1

I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe.
Othello, 5. 2

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