Final Shakespeare

Ophelia, Hamlet

"O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!The courtier's, soldier's , socholar's, eye, tongue, sword,Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,The glass of fashion, and the mold of form,Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite, down!

Hamlet, Hamlet

"Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Macbeth, Macbeth

"Out out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing."

Cassio, Othello

"Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself , and what remains is bestial.

Hamlet, Hamlet

"Seems madame? Nay it is. I know not "seems."

Feste, Twelfth Night

"The lady has no folly. She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and fools are as like husbands as pilchers are to herrings - the husband's the bigger."

Falstaff, Henry IV

"There live not three good men unhanged in England ; and one of them is fat , and grows old."

The University Wits

In London William Shakespeare found himself among a group of playwrights, including Christopher Marlowe, who were named for the place where they had first written plays. They were called

1599

We associate Shakespeare with the Globe Theatre on London's south bank, but the Globe was not constructed until what year?

Lord Chamberlain's Men

What was the name of the acting company that William Shakespeare eventually joined and wrote plays for in London?

He drew a sketch of the Swan Theatre

Who was Johannes deWitt and why is he important in the understanding of English theatre in Shakespeare's time?

Shakespeare

Who was the young London playwright first identified by Robert Greene with this disparaging description: "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers . . ."

Emilia, Othello

"'Tis not a year or two shows us a man, They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us."

Iago, Othello

"A black ram is tupping your white ewe"

Falstaff, Henry IV

"But I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king . . . Do not when thou art king, hang a thief."

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth

"But screw your courage to the sticking-placeAnd we'll not fail."

Falstaff, Henry IV

"Emboweled? If thou embowel me today, I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too tomorrow."

Olivia, Twelth Night

"Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You are now out of your text. But we will draw the curtain and show you the picture. Look you, sir, such a one I was this present. Is't not well done?

Bottom, Midsummer

"I have had a dream, past the wit of any man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Me thought I was - there is no man can tell what . Methought I was—and me thought I had—but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had."

Prince Hal, Henry IV

"I know you all, and will awhile uphold the The unyoked humor of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world That, when he please to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at. "

Theseus, Midsummer

"I wooed thee with my sword and won thee doing thee injuries."

King Richard II, Richard II

"I'll give my jewels for a set of beads; My gorgeous palace for a hermitage; My gay apparel for an almsman's gown; My figured goblets for a dish of wood; My scepter for a palmer's walking-staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints"

Emilia, Othello

"Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour,As husbands have."

Richard II, Richard II

"Let's talk of graves, or worms and epitaphs,Make dust our paper and with rainy eyesWrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth . . . For God's sake let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings."

Barbantio, Othello

"Look to her, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee"

Feste, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

Hamlet, Hamlet

"Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come."

Mowbry, Richard II

"My native English, now I must forgo, And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or harp Or like a cunning instrument cased up, Or being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony."

Gaunt, Richard II

"This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of mystery, this seat of Mars This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea"

Bottom, Midsummer

"What do you see? An ass head of your own do you?"

Puck, Midsummer

"What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?"

Weird Sisters, Macbeth

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth

"Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?

Claudius, Hamlet

"With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral , and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole"

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth

"Yet do I fear thy nature: It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To reach the nearest way."

Othello, Othello

"You must speak of me as one who loved not wisely but too well."

False

After she got pregnant, Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway subsequently got married in the local Anglican parish. True or False

Hamlet, Hamlet

Excellent well, thou art a fishmonger

Iago, Othello

In following him, I follow but myself . . . . . . But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am."

Hamlet, Hamlet

Let be.

Working for Catholic landowner Alexander Houghton

Name one of the possibilities where biographers speculate that Shakespeare spent "the missing years."

Literature and language

Name two subjects that would have been included in Shakespeare's grammar school education in Stratford.

he was an alderman, then worked in the glove trade business

Shakespeare's father John worked in what profession?

Anne Hathaway

The 26 year-old ____________________became pregnant with the child of Will Shakespeare.

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth

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