How to Tame The Green Eyed Monsters of Jealousy
and How To Survive Them The Bard Way Not The Hard Way
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
Jealousy can take many different forms, nearly all of which can be found in a single Shakespeare play, how we can spot it in others and heaven forbid, even in ourselves - and together we’re going to come clean about our resentful feelings in this department, and see if we can find a way, if not to avoid it completely at least to share space with it like the uncle who annoys you at Christmas but who you can cope with from a distance for the rest of the year.
I think you're likely to know which play I'm talking about - it's pretty much the set text of jealousy - yet Othello isn't the most jealous character in the play. Ooh given away which play it is now.
Key Shakeaways
1 The last person to admit they're jealous is usually you. By which I mean me. All of us. You know what I'm talking about here. Acknowledge the feelings, suppressing them won't make them go away.
2 Do what Shakespeare's characters did (along with Elsa): let it go. Let it GO!
3 Follow the advice of Orlando in As You Like It, stop worrying about other people and concentrate on your own life.
Shakespeare plays referred to in this episode:
Othello, The Winter's Tale, As You Like It
Other jealous references:
A famous John Lennon song. I'm sure you won't struggle to 'imagine' which one. (No, not that one)
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