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Wanna play "Name that play?" I'll give a line, you guess what play it's from. Then you give a line.
Almost like being there, no?
The King's a beggar now the play is done All is well ended if this suit be won, That you express content; which we will pay With strife to please you, day exceeding day. Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts, Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.
(Copyright laws being what they are, I'm figuring we are safe in quoting more than two lines)
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Edit: I looked it up and I'm right. It occurs at the very end of the play (as you might guess) and is spoken by the King.
Here's Mine:
quote: I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
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Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.' But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:' and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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I think you're supposed to correctly guess the one before you, Orincoro, before you start quoting Twelfth Night. Teshster's is Richard II.
Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
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Ah, Bob's I *know*. But it feels like cheating, because I don't remember it from the play, but I know the origin of "it was Greek to me".
Julius Caesar.
And now for mine, and of course the only Shakespeare I remember (don't have my complete works with me) is really obvious, but oh well.
Blow, winds, crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanos, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks You sulpherous and thought executing fires, Vaunt couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, singe my white head! And you, all-knowing thunder Smite flat the thick rotundity of the world! Crack Natures' molds, all germens spill at once that make ungrateful man!
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Princess Leah's quote is from King Lear, if I'm not mistaken.
Here is an easy one from my favorite play:
No more of that.--I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Belle's is from Othello, after he's killed Desdemona and learned the truth about Iago's manipulation and so forth.
Here's another easy one (did anyone else have to memorize this in high school English?):
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. 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.Posts: 3149 | Registered: Jul 2005
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Macbeth? (It's either that or Hamlet, but I'm fairly sure it's Macbeth)
EDIT: Yep!
quote:Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
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I am jealous too. But selectively so--I'm not so sure that I would wish to be them on the Titus Andronicus day, which would, with my luck, be the only day I would be able to make it.
And it is Macbeth (my favorite play by him).
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Yep, that's Much Ado About Nothing, I'm certain. How about
Grim visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds to fright the souls of fearful adversaries He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber to the lascivious pleasings of a lute.
My family has a tradition of going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival each year. While I'm a little frustrated with some of the recent management decisions (how many times do we need to see Romeo & Juliet in a decade?!), it's still very enjoyable.
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That would be Richard II, I do believe - Richard's monologue at the beginning, where he complains that he isn't suited to these piping days of peace.
Hmm, Shakespeare and not much time. I'm going to have to go with something utterly trivial :
quote:Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
Sorry, but I gotta run.
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quote:For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand heists, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmittigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain
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Hamlet. Act 1, scene 2? Hamlet speaking about his father.
How about this one:
quote:Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid My better service, when my turpitude Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart: If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel. I fight against thee! No: I will go seek Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits My latter part of life.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition
I guess I favor the histories; most of the comedies, excepting Winter's Tale, Tempest, and Much Ado tend to bleed together for me (and some wouldn't put WT in that camp.)
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Hmm, Romeo and Juliet? Not going to post another quote until I know whether I was right or not.
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It is a sonnet. But there's no way I could remember which one without looking it up; does that count?
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quote:That would be Richard II, I do believe - Richard's monologue at the beginning, where he complains that he isn't suited to these piping days of peace.
I believe your thinking of Richard III not Richard II.
quote: Down down I come like glistering Phaethon, Wanting the manage of unruly jades. In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base, To come at traitors' calls and do them grace. In the base court? come down down court! down king! For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
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No, honestly, That's a quote I remember from my college Shakespeare class. I did have to look it up to get it all right, but I didn't google it.
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds
116. Ends with:
If this be error, and upon me proved - I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Here's a veryn easy one.
But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.
How about -
Who was the Thane, lives yet, But under heavy judgement bears that life, Which he deserves to lose.?
And, just to top it off:
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
(Please mention acts too.)
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They're all pretty easy, though.
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quote:But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.
MacBeth
quote:Who was the Thane, lives yet, But under heavy judgement bears that life, Which he deserves to lose.?
also MacBeth
quote:(Please mention acts too.
Riggghttt!
Like anyone would remember which Act for more than 20 minutes after reading let alone 20 years. And when you actually go to see the plays, its not exactly clear what act and scene you're in.
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But it feels like cheating, because I don't remember it from the play, but I know the origin of "it was Greek to me". ![[Hail]](graemlins/hail.gif)
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