Shakespeare and Brave New World

Quote #1“Nay, but to liveIn the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making loveOver the nasty sty…”

Quote #1 - Info Play quote is from: Hamlet

Who is speaking this line: Hamlet

What is the context: Hamlet is mad that Gertrude married Claudius so quickly after Hamlet’s dad died

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Quote #2“When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rageOr in the incestuous pleasure of his bed…”

Quote #2 - Info Play quote is from: Hamlet

Who is speaking this line: Hamlet

What is the context: Hamlet is plotting the best time/way in which to kill Claudius

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Quote #3“Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand,In whose comparison all whites are inkWriting their own reproach; to whose soft seizureThe cygnet’s down is harsh…”

Quote #3 - Info Play quote is from: Troilus and Cressida

Who is speaking this line: Troilus

What is the context: Troilus is speaking to Cressida’s uncle about how much he loves her

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Quote #4“Oh! She doth teach the torches to burn bright.It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear…”

Quote #4 - Info Play quote is from: Romeo and Juliet

Who is speaking this line: Romeo

What is the context: Romeo has just spotted Juliet for the first time and is enamored by her beauty

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Quote #5“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,That sees into the bottom of my grief?O sweet my mother; cast me not away;Delay this marriage for a month, a week;Or, if you do not, make the bridal bedIn that dim monument where Tybalt lies…”

Quote #5 - Info Play quote is from: Romeo and Juliet

Who is speaking this line: Juliet

What is the context: Juliet is trying to get her mother, Lady Capulet, to not force her to marry Paris

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Quote #6“The murkiest den, the most opportune pace, the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust”

Quote #6 - Info Play quote is from: The Tempest

Who is speaking this line: Ferdinand

What is the context: Ferdinand is explaining how much he loves Miranda and wants to settle down with her

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Quote #7“O thou weed, who are so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet that the sense aches at thee. Was this most goodly book made to write ‘whore’ upon? Heaven stops the nose at it…”

Quote #7 - Info Play quote is from: Othello

Who is speaking this line: Othello

What is the context: Desdemona is asking Othello if he believes she is faithful to him – he accuses her of being very fake towards him

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Quote #8“How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world, that has such people in’t!”

Quote #8 - Info Play quote is from: The Tempest

Who is speaking this line: Miranda

What is the context: Miranda is laying eyes on other people for the first time (she has grown up on a deserted island)

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Quote #9The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes”

Quote #9 - Info Play quote is from: King Lear

Who is speaking this line: Edgar

What is the context: Edgar reveals himself to his brother Edmund for the first time while explaining the idea of karma (since Edward has been evil; he has bad things happen to himself)

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Quote #10“If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death”

Quote #10 - Info Play quote is from: Othello

Who is speaking this line: Othello

What is the context: Othello is expressing how happy he is to be with Desdemona once again after being apart for a long time

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