Green-eyed monster

Posted by Adam King on March 01, 2003

It says in the Shakespeare list on this site that Iago's quote "The Green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on" is referring to the way cats play with mice before killing them. Can this be right? Surely it's just a metaphor for the way jealousy operates and nothing to do with cats?

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