Shakespeare Quote Drill Flashcards
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Vocabulary-style flashcards based on a Shakespeare quote drill, identifying characters associated with famous lines, symbols, and plot points from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing.
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"To be or not to be"
Hamlet
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Marcellus
"Get thee to a nunnery"
Hamlet
Ophelia handing out flowers
Ophelia
"Good night, sweet prince"
Horatio
Holding Yorick’s skull
Hamlet
Talking about death like sleep
Hamlet
Speaking in riddles
Hamlet
"Merry war"
Beatrice & Benedick
Overhearing love
Beatrice/Benedick
"Write down that I am an ass"
Dogberry
Publicly shaming Hero
Claudio
Song about deceivers
Balthasar
Villain plotting deception
Don John
Insults = flirting
Beatrice & Benedick
Fake death
Hero plot
Hamlet in Kashmir
Haider
Girl disguises as boy
She’s the Man
High school taming story
10 Things I Hate About You
Speaking truth through madness
Ophelia
Thinking instead of acting
Hamlet
Immediate revenge
Fortinbras
Easily manipulated lover
Claudio
Witty anti-marriage woman
Beatrice
Man who fears marriage
Benedick
Loyal friend
Horatio
Guilty king
Claudius
Flowers symbolism
Ophelia
Skull symbolism
Death equality
Good deception
Beatrice/Benedick trick
Evil deception
Don John
Real madness
Ophelia
Fake madness
Hamlet
Honor destroys love
Claudio & Hero
Love through conflict
Beatrice & Benedick
Delayed revenge
Hamlet
Foils to Hamlet
Laertes & Fortinbras
Comic language misuse
Dogberry
Corrupt setting
Denmark
Death speech
Horatio
Where is Haider set?
Kashmir in the 1990s
“To be or not to be”
Hamlet
Where and when does Haider take place?
Kashmir in the 1990s
Who says: “Therefore our sometime sister, now our Queen”
Claudius
Who says: “Nor have we herein barred Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone With this affair along. For all, our thanks.”
Claudius
Who says: “. . . But I have that within which passes show.”
Hamlet
Who says: “Like Niobe, all tears”
Hamlet
Who says: “Such was the very armor he had on
When he the ambitious Norway combated.”
Horatio
Who says: “And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.”
The Ghost (Hamlet’s father)
Who says: “Adieu,adieu,adieu. Remembe rme.”
The Ghost (Hamlet’s father)
Who says: “Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee?”
Hamlet
Who says: “And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter.”
Hamlet
Who says: “I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter.”
Hammy let
Who says: “With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus Old grandsire Priam seeks.”
Hamlet
Who says: “He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My
gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of”
Hamlet —> speaking about poor Yorick
Who says: “How strange or odd some’er I bear myself
(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)”
Hamlet
What is the connection between Hamlet and “The The Freudian Reading”
Shakespeare’s Hamlet has its roots in the same
soil as Oedipus Rex . . . The play is built up on
Hamlet’s hesitations over fulfilling the task of
revenge
Who says: “When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook . . .”
The queen —> in reference to Ophelia’s death
Who said: “Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this fashion i’ th’ earth?”
Hamlet
Who says: “Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the
fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now,yet it will come. The readiness is all.”
Hamlet
Who says: “It will be short. The interim is mine,
And a man’s life’s no more than to say “one.”
Hamlet
Who says: “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
The goat Horatio does
Where does Much Ado About Nothing take place?
Messina, Italy
Who says: “I tell him we shall stay here, at the least a month, and he heartily prays some occasion may detain us longer.”
Don Pedro (about Leonato’s invitation)
Who says: “Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? Go to, i’ faith! And thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke”
Benedick (Homotron 3000)
When did targeting teens as audience start?
“1950s or 1980s, depending on who you ask”
What is “Teensploitation”
ubculture films (surfer/ greaser 50s-60s), horror (70s–), sex comedies (80s, Fast Times...)
What is Teen TV
After School Specials, sitcoms, WB dramas (Dawson's Creek)
“Teen film” def:
Primarily refers to “mainstream popular anglophone films that predominantly address a youthful audience for stories about adolescence”
What movie is a lose adaptation of “taming of the shrew”
10 things I hate about you (1999)
Who says: “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.”
Leonato (regarding Benedick and Beatrice)
Who says: “If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods.”
Don Pedro (playing cupid)
What does “Gull” mean in the context of Much Ado About Nothing?
a fool, dupe, or easy target for a prank
Who says: “May I be so converted and see with these eyes?”
Benedick
Is Hamlet more verse or prose?
Verse! Verse: 75%, Prose: 25%
Is Much Ado more verse or prose?
Prose! Verse: 30% Prose: 70%
Who says: “Give not this rotten orange to your friend.”
Claudio (speaking about Hero)
Who says: “Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.”
Claudio (speaking about Hero)
Who says: “Confessed the vile encounters they have had A thousand times in secret.”
Don Pedro (believing his brothers lies)
Who says: “There is not chastity enough in language”
Don John
Who says: “O Fate, take not away thy heavy hand! Death is the fairest cover for her shame That may be wished for.”
Leonato (speaking about his daughter, Hero)
Who says: “Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes;
For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would on the rearward of reproaches, Strike at thy life.”
Leonato (speaking about his daughter, Hero…hoping she dies??)
Who says: “Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?”
Leonato (speaking about his daughter, Hero)
Who says: “Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you in this case. Your daughter here the princes left for dead. Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it that she is dead indeed;”
Friar
Who says: “So will it fare with Claudio. When he shall hear she died upon his words”
Friar
What was the name of Leonato’s wife who never appears in the play?
Innogen
Who says: “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place.”
Beatrice
What does Beatrice request of Benedick after what happened to Hero at the wedding?
“Kill Claudio.” "… “Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.”
Who says: “No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
Beatrice
What does Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be" address?
The existential struggle with suicide and the nature of existence.
What evokes Marcellus's line "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
The corruption pervading the Danish kingdom.
What is the significance of Hamlet's command to "Get thee to a nunnery"?
It reflects his anger and distrust of women, particularly towards Ophelia.
What is symbolized by Ophelia handing out flowers?
Her madness and the significance of flowers in representing various themes.
Context of Horatio's line "Good night, sweet prince"?
It is spoken after Hamlet's death, indicating sorrow and respect.
What does holding Yorick’s skull symbolize for Hamlet?
The equalizing nature of death, reminding him of mortality.
How does Hamlet compare death to sleep in his speech?
He explains that death is akin to sleep, implying a peaceful escape.
What purpose do riddles serve in Hamlet's dialogue?
They obscure his true intentions as part of his feigned madness.
How is the term "merry war" relevant to Beatrice and Benedick?
It describes their playful banter that disguises affection as witty conflict.
What does overhearing love reveal in Much Ado About Nothing?
It creates trickery, leading to character development and plot advancement.
What does Dogberry mean when he says "Write down that I am an ass"?
It highlights his comic foolishness and misunderstanding of situations.