Atë as an invocation of vengeance and menace. Mark Antony, lamenting Caesar's murder, envisions: Shakespeare also mentions her in the play "Much Ado About Nothing", when Benedick says, referring to Beatrice, So too, in "King John", Shakespeare refers to Queen Eleanor as "An Ate stirring [John] to blood and strife" (2.1.63), and in Love's Labours Lost Birone jeers "Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them on! stir them on!" (5.2. 688-9). In her book "The March of Folly", Barbara Tuchman notes that the earth has been called The Meadow of Atë. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", a fiend from
Much Apu About Nothing succeeds as a savage satire on the scapegoating of immigrants. Homer has never been so frighteningly dumb, although he does come through with a rousing liberal speech." The episode is "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening's third favorite episode of the show. The episode received a negative review from Dave Foster of DVD Times. He considered "Much Apu About Nothing" to be one of the season's most "tiring" episodes, "mostly because Apu is not a strong enough character to focus an episode on no matter how much writer David Cohen develops him". Foster commented that the episode deals with a political