Response to Shakespeare's Jealous Husbands: Othello and LeontesIn Shakespeare's Jealous Husbands: Othello and Leontes by Paul Dean is a play which dramatizes the comparison between Othello's jealousy and the jealousy of Shakespeare's late romance, The Winter's Tale. , serves as a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing a permanent chemical change for further action. Shakespeare's ideas about jealousy came from a variety of literary and cultural traditions, beginning with the narrative of the Fall as he read it in the book of Genesis and as he saw it in mystery plays medieval plays still played during his adolescence. Jealousy is one of the main motives in this story in the form of “lust, for the serpent offered Eve equality with God in the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:5). Dean traces the theme of jealousy in other Shakespearean plays, and analyzes the differences and similarities that connect both jealousy in Othello and jealousy in Shakespeare's late romance, The Winter' Tale, where it serves motivation for further action. will talk about the traces of the theme of Jealousy in other Shakespearean plays, when the location of Othello moves from Venice to Cyprus, jealousy remains a key theme: but when the location of The Winter's Tale moves from Sicily to Bohemia, the emotional 'tone' of the play undergoes a profound change'' (Dean). For example, she desires the fruit because she desires the knowledge that she is told it will bring her. She feels that God is hiding this knowledge from her and Adam because he is selfish and would feel threatened by challenges to his omniscience. In turn (but less often noticed), God forces Adam and Eve to leave Eden in the middle of a paper... there forever. We must all hope that there will be a Paullina to bring us back to our senses, says Lenotes.Works CitedDean, Paul. “Shakespeare’s Jealous Husbands: Othello and Leontes.” Use of English 62.3(2011): 240-255. Rep. in Shakespearean criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol.149. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Library Resource Center. Internet. May 9, 2014. Lyne, Raphael, Shakespeare's Late Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Taylor, Gary, “Divine [ ] sences,” Shakespeare Survey 54: Shakespeare and Religions (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 13-30. .Groves, Beatrice, Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604 (Oxford: ClarendonPress. 2007). Hunter, GK, “Othello and Color Prejudice” (originally published 1967), in his DramaticIdentities and Cultural Tradition: Studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Liverpool, 1978), pp. 31-5 Press, 2007)