Scene : Jack is over the apartment reading a script that Will has written. Jack has just discovered, to his shock, that “there are lezzies in this.”

Jack: Will, I beg of you, please let them be played by men. No one will know the difference. That’s what Shakespeare did when he had lesbos in his scripts.

Will: Yes, who could forget the coven of high school gym teachers in Macbeth?

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So after finding that Shakespeare reference and being at google anyway I went looking for more Shakespeare Simpsons references. Ending up at www.simpsons.com I typed “shakespeare” into the search and, while I did not get any interesting hits, I did notice that the search engine is Prospero Technology.

That’s just weird.

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Just caught a Simpsons Shakespeare reference I never noticed before. In “A Star is Burns”, where the town holds an indy film festival, Barney the town trunk creates his own ‘art’ film, in black and white, showing the horrors of life as an alcoholic.

He quotes a line from Othello “about a drinker” (and credits it as such): “To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast.” That is Cassio, Act II, scene 3.

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I was just blogging that because it was a Simpsons reference. It only just dawned on me as I wrote it that IT’S OTHELLO AGAIN!

Man. Seriously. Othello week.

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AP Wire | 12/02/2005 | Racine County inmates rehearse Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’:

Seriously, it’s like Othello week or something. I can’t get away from him.

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Ha! You may think that an article entitled Shakespeare for Warriors is going to be all about Henry V and the infamous “St. Crispin’s Day” speech, but you’d be wrong!
Well, after the first couple of paragraphs, that is. “We happy few, we band of brothers” is brought up as something that one SEAL quotes to his fellows before heading into battle. (Oddly, I actually wrote that quote on a card for one of my groomsmen at my wedding. Although I took out the “sheds blood with me” part :))
But what’s cool is that the article then totally goes in a different direction – to Othello, no less. Quick show of hands, how many people think of Othello as a particularly military play? I never did. But the article looks at Othello’s weaknesses (and Iago’s strengths) from that perspective, about how Othello is a total fish out of water in Venice rather than the tented fields, and how quick he is to believe Iago simply because he is more comfortable with the military language that Iago speaks to him.
Desdemona does not come off well here. She’s entirely the instigator, says the author. And “When given the choice between trusting the diabolical Iago, a warrior with many kills under his belt, or his new wife Desdemona, the Venetian, Othello doesn’t hesitate. He goes with what his officer says : soldiers don’t lie.” “Band of brothers” ends up being Othello’s downfall.

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