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Meet the big man himself! Oh, yeah, and Caesar too. 😁 Antony runs a naked race through the streets flogging women with a goat thong so they could be more fertile. Don't blame us. We didn't write it!

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Who are the villains? Who are the heroes? Are there any heroes in politics? Why do people like this play? Was JC a tyrant? Did Brutus stab him in the BALLS??!!! Answers to all these and more... will be attempted. 😏  We discuss Plutarch (*yawn*) and then quickly move on to blood and murder and overthrow of governments and some river named the Rubicon. Kicking off our second season with some hot Romans (at least we like to imagine Mark Antony with a sixpack and excellent cheekbones).

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Find out what's in store for you in our shiny new season! Oooooh....

Coming up first in Season 2: Julius Caesar!! Stay tuned. Starts February 2nd.

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Wrapping up Season 1 with this handy guide to all that useful shit we talk about with every play. We'll cover everything from "what is a comedy" to Line Ending Blueprints. Here's a taste, but for the FULL SUPER-DEE-DUPER TEXT go to our website!! We'll even make it downloadable, you lucky f*ckers!!

1) in a tragedy there are lots of dead bodies on stage at the end. In a comedy at least one couple gets married. In a "problem play" there are bits of both, which is problematic...

2) Iambic pentameter is just a rhythm (METER) with five (PENT) double beats (IAMBS, or "I am!"s)

3) Only 5% of the words contained in all of Shakespeare's plays are words we don't use anymore, so quit moaning about having to learn Olde English. 

4) Verse is when a line is written in rhythm (see Iambic Pentameter). There is also Prose, which is more like regular speaking. When a character who usually  speaks in verse suddenly starts speaking in prose, LISTEN UP cuz he's deranged... or sick, or lying...

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69??? Well, we had to celebrate Drunk Shakespeare style! Here's to you, Othello and Desdemona! The final scene of Othello is a messy one, but hopefully Iago will get what's coming to him. It's unclear. 

We hope you've enjoyed Othello. UP NEXT: Julia Caesar

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Just before the real shit goes down there's one preview scene, Act 5: Scene 1, where Iago kills off one pesky whiner and maims another. He's losing his cool. 

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What to do when your husband thinks you've been cheating on him? In Act 4: Scene 3 of Othello we get two very different opinions from two very different women. It's one of those rare scenes in Shakespeare's plays that has only women in it, and if you think Shakespeare didn't care about women then you haven't listened to his female characters.

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Othello is not taking rejection well. He's pretty pissed. And Desdemona is totally confused. She finally has to appeal to Iago for help! Ooohhh the irony.

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The animal imagery starts to get pretty heavy in Act 4 as Othello gets mind-f*cked by that demon, Iago. Goats, monkeys, minxes, skunks... There's no telling who or what is having sex in his imagination. He is sliding far from the noble, charismatic hero we first met back in Act 1. That's why they call it a tragedy...

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That handkerchief! Holy shit! What a piece of work! Othello suspects that Desdemona has given it to Cassio so he can wipe her smell out of his beard. In a jealous froth, he tells Des the story of where the handkerchief came from and it's f*cking terrifying!! It's all downhill from here for them.

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