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Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play:

Play (1 Point): Hamlet

Act and Scene (1 point): 1.2

Speaker (1 point) Hamlet

Spoken to (1 point): Gertrude

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Claudius and Gertrude are trying to get Hamlet to cheer up about his father’s death. Gertrude states that people die all the time and asks Hamlet why it seems so particular to him? This is what he answers with. He is saying that none of his outward displays of grief can show how he truly feels.

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king




Spoken to (1 point): Soliloquy: Himself, The Audience

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is the beginning of Hamlet’s soliloquy after Claudius and Gertrude try to cheer him up about his father’s death. He is lamenting God’s law against suicide, saying how his life is pointless now. He is also disgusted that not two months after his father’s death that Gertrude has remarried.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;



Speaker (1 point) Polonius

Spoken to (1 point): Laertes

Situation and Relevance (3 points): While at port, Ophelia and Polonius come to see Laertes off to France. This passage is Polonius’ advice to Laertes before he gets on the boat about how to behave and who to trust while there.

He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being: that done, he lets me go:

Play: Hamlet


Speaker (1 point) Ophelia

Spoken to (1 point): Polonius

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is the first evidence of Hamlet’s feigned madness. Ophelia relays this story to Polonius about Hamlet coming to her with his pants around his ankles and acting strangely. This is a description of some of his actions while he was there.

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;




Spoken to (1 point): Soliloquy: Himself, Audience

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is Hamlet’s famous ‘To be, or not to be’ speech. He is essentially contemplating suicide here. But since nobody knows what lies beyond death, do you dream while you are dead, and if so what kind of dreams? There’s the catch.

'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too; My operant powers their functions leave to do: And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind For husband shalt thou--

Play (1 point): Hamlet


Speaker (1 point) Player King

Spoken to (1 point): Player Queen

Situation and Relevance (3 points): During the ‘play within a play’ where Hamlet is trying to ascertain Claudius’ guilt, the player king says this to the player queen because he is getting old and fears he will be gone soon. But he tells her that maybe she will find someone else.

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.




Spoken to (1 point): Guildenstern, but Rosencrantz is present too

Situation and Relevance (3 points): After the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet his mother wishes to see him in her room. They then stay to try and question him. He sees through their ruse and tells Guildenstern to play a recorder. When he says he can’t, Hamlet then launches into this speech. Basically, he is accusing Guildenstern of seeing him as easier to play than a recorder.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.



Speaker (1 point) Claudius

Spoken to (1 point): Soliloquy: Himself, God, Audience

Situation and Relevance (3 points): It is right after the play in scene 2. Claudius is praying in his quarters for forgiveness, but he can’t have it because he is unwilling to part with the spoils of his crime. Hamlet is in the hall and has just decided not to kill Claudius because he is repenting and cleansing his soul of sin. Claudius says this after he rises.

Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' And, in this brainish apprehension, kills The unseen good old man.



Speaker (1 point) Gertrude

Spoken to (1 point): Claudius

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is Gertrude’s description to Claudius of Hamlet’s slaying of Polonius.

Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.




Spoken to (1 point): Rosencrantz, but Guildenstern is present too

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Hamlet is warning about how Claudius will use them for his own ends. They may find their actions rewarded currently, but it won’t be long before they are tossed aside or worse.

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine. Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, And dupp'd the chamber-door; Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more.




Spoken to (1 point): Claudius and Gertrude, probably directed at Claudius

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is one of the songs the now mad Ophelia sings to Claudius and Gertrude. It has to do with a virgin girl below a window being invited into a room and leaving without her virginity. This could be a sort of weird pass on Claudius, though she is mad so I am not sure.

No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.



Speaker (1 point) Laertes

Spoken to (1 point): Hamlet

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Laertes says this to Hamlet after he is wounded in the sword fight. He is speaking about the poisoned sword of his and the poison that Hamlet’s mother just drank. He tells Hamlet he is doomed from the poison. He reveals that Claudius is behind it.

I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by miracle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness. Play (1 point) Henry IV


Speaker (1 point) Falstaff

Spoken to (1 point): Prince Henry

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Not sure, as we did not read this. Go for it if you want. Might be an extra credit question.

Good my lord,You have begot me, bred me, loved me: IReturn those duties back as are right fit,Obey you, love you, and most honour you.Why have my sisters husbands, if they sayThey love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carryHalf my love with him, half my care and duty:Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,To love my father all.

Play (1 point): King Lear



Spoken to (1 point): King Lear

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is said during the splitting of the kingdom sequence at the beginning. After Cordelia initially answers with ‘nothing’ to Lear, he tells her to rethink her words. This is her trying to answer as honestly as possible. Needless to say, Lear doesn’t like it.

Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intendTo make this creature fruitful!Into her womb convey sterility!Dry up in her the organs of increase;And from her derogate body never springA babe to honour her! If she must teem,Create her child of spleen; that it may live,And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;Turn all her mother's pains and benefitsTo laughter and contempt; that she may feelHow sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! Away, away!



Speaker (1 point) King Lear

Spoken to (1 point): Goneril

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Goneril insults Lear, his men, and kicks him out of her house. He says he will go to Regan’s then. This is the curse he bestows upon Goneril for how she treated him. This is basically asking the goddess to make her sterile, and if she does conceive, have it be a twisted child that torments her.

O, sir, to wilful men,The injuries that they themselves procureMust be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:He is attended with a desperate train;And what they may incense him to, being aptTo have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.



Speaker (1 point) Regan

Spoken to (1 point): Gloucester (Goneril and Cornwall are present too)

Situation and Relevance (3 points): King Lear has just stormed out after trying to stay with Regan after Goneril kicked him out. Regan is telling everyone to shut your doors and not let him or his men stay with you. They want him to have to wander around outside in the cold and rain.

When priests are more in word than matter;When brewers mar their malt with water;When nobles are their tailors' tutors;No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;When every case in law is right;No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;When slanders do not live in tongues;Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;When usurers tell their gold i' the field;And bawds and whores do churches build;Then shall the realm of AlbionCome to great confusion:Then comes the time, who lives to see't,That going shall be used with feet.

Play (1 Point): King Lear


Speaker (1 point) Lear’s Fool

Spoken to (1 point): Soliloquy: Audience

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This a prophetic soliloquy Lear’s fool recites during the massive rainstorm. It’s all the things that Merlin would prophesize would bring about the end of the kingdom of England.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the self-same flightThe self-same way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring bothI oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,Because what follows is pure innocence.I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,That which I owe is lost; but if you pleaseTo shoot another arrow that self wayWhich you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,As I will watch the aim, or to find bothOr bring your latter hazard back againAnd thankfully rest debtor for the first.

Play (1 Point): Merchant of Venice


Speaker (1 point) Bassanio

Spoken to (1 point): Antonio

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Bassanio says this to Antonio when he is trying to convince him to lend him the money to try for Portia’s hand. He is saying to Antonio that even though I have lost some of your money in the past, if you trust me now and lend me a bit more, I may be able to gain far more than was invested.

If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die aschaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the mannerof my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooersare so reasonable, for there is not one among thembut I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grantthem a fair departure.



Speaker (1 point) Portia

Spoken to (1 point): Nerissa

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This takes place in Belmont. This is what Portia says to Nerissa after she tells her four potential suitors how they must win her heart, and of the consequences for failure. Two of them bow out immediately and two stay to try their luck. But she is saying she cares for none of them. Nerissa will then mention Bassanio.

He hath disgraced me, andhindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted mybargains, cooled my friends, heated mineenemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hathnot a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed withthe same food, hurt with the same weapons, subjectto the same diseases, healed by the same means,warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, asa Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poisonus, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we notrevenge?



Speaker (1 point) Shylock

Spoken to (1 point): Salarino & Solanio

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is Shylock’s famous ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?’ speech. There is an encounter between Shylock and the two men where he accuses them of knowing Jessica would betray him. He then speaks of Antonio and his bond. This passage is the list of crimes Shylock sees as having been committed against him by Antonio. It is also Shylock’s questions about what makes him different and not worthy of respect.

Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The cursenever fell upon our nation till now; I never felt ittill now: two thousand ducats in that; and otherprecious, precious jewels. I would my daughterwere dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats inher coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I knownot what's spent in the search: why, thou loss uponloss! the thief gone with so much, and so much tofind the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:

Play (1 point): Merchant of Venice


Speaker (1 point) Shylock

Spoken to (1 point): Tubal

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Shylock has just given his if you prick us, do we not bleed speech to Salarino and Solanio. Tubal comes up and Shylock asks him about Genoa and his daughter Jessica. After he says he has not found her yet, Shylock goes into the above speech. He is basically telling Tubal what Jessica stole and that he is furious with her. It is also costing him a lot to find the her, the thief.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice.

Play (1 point): Merchant of Venice


Speaker (1 point) Portia

Spoken to (1 point): Shylock

Situation and Relevance (3 points): During the trial scene, after both Antonio and Shylock introduce themselves, Portia asks Antonio if he admits to the bond and he says yes. She then states that Shylock must be merciful. When Shylock asks why, this is what she says. It is basically a description of mercy, saying that it blesses those who make use of it and that it becomes kings, as well as likening it to the quality of God.

She is abused, stol'n from me, and corruptedFor nature so prepost'rously to err,Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,Sans witchcraft could not.

Play (1 Point): Othello


Speaker (1 point) Brabantio or Brabanzio

Spoken to (1 point): The Duke

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is what Brabanzio says to the Duke about his daughter Desdemona when he comes to discover that Othello has wed her in secret. He thinks her affection for Othello is caused by witchcraft.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.



Speaker (1 point) Iago

Spoken to (1 point): Cassio

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Iago says this to Cassio when he gets dismissed from his position after the drunken brawl Roderigo coaxes him into. Cassio is concerned about his reputation and Iago says that reputation is of little importance and is only lost if one sees it as lost.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls.Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him,And makes me poor indeed.



Speaker (1 point) Iago

Spoken to (1 point): Othello

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is part of the extremely long exchange Iago has with Othello before telling him to observe Desdemona around Cassio. He is basically trying to ingratiate himself to Othello and sound way more honest than everyone reading knows he is. Ironically, this is in direct contradiction to what he tells Cassio about reputation in Act 2.

That's a fault. That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give; She was a charmer, and could almost read The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.



Speaker (1 point) Othello

Spoken to (1 point): Desdemona

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Desdemona is fretting to Emilia over the loss of the handkerchief Othello gave her. Othello then asks her for it and she can’t produce it. He then tells her this story about its origins.

I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.If any wretch have put this in your head,Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,There's no man happy; the purest of their wivesIs foul as slander.

Play (1 point): Othello


Speaker (1 point) Emilia

Spoken to (1 point): Othello

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Othello is questioning Emilia about Desdemona’s interactions with Cassio. He asks whether they were ever alone or whispering and she says no. She then says the above passage to him. He then tells her to get Desdemona immediately after this.

It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,— Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!— It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.

Play (1 point): Othello


Speaker (1 point) Othello

Spoken to (1 point): Soliloquy: Himself, God, Audience

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is the very first thing Othello says while he is lurking near Desdemona in their chamber in 5.2. He is getting ready to kill her. He is saying how he must kill her but he will not ruin her skin with her blood, but find another way to do it. Right after the end of this speech is when she wakes up and asks if it is him.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majestyTo strut before a wanton ambling nymph;I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my timeInto this breathing world, scarce half made up,And that so lamely and unfashionableThat dogs bark at me as I halt by them;Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,Have no delight to pass away the time,Unless to spy my shadow in the sunAnd descant on mine own deformity:And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days,I am determined to prove a villainAnd hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Play (1 point): Richard III


Speaker (1 point) Richard


Situation and Relevance (3 points): Part of Richard’s ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ speech. Here he both describes how he is not handsome and how that affects how people see him. He says this will make him a villain.

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?Was ever woman in this humour won?I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,To take her in her heart's extremest hate,With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,The bleeding witness of her hatred by;Having God, her conscience, and these barsagainst me,And I nothing to back my suit at all,But the plain devil and dissembling looks,And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!





Situation and Relevance (3 points): Richard says this to the audience right after the first scene with Anne. He is stating how he was able to woo her even in her sad and angered state. But he states he’ll not keep her long.

I do not know that Englishman aliveWith whom my soul is any jot at oddsMore than the infant that is born to-nightI thank my God for my humility.




Spoken to (1 point): Most of the rest of the cast except the kids

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Everyone is gathered at church and a sickly King Edward is trying to reconcile current conflicts by having people hug. Richard has just arrived and has apologized if he has done any wrongs to anyone. The lines above are the last thing he says before Queen Elizabeth mentions Clarence and the Richard tells everyone he is dead.

You break not sanctuary in seizing him.The benefit thereof is always grantedTo those whose dealings have deserved the place,And those who have the wit to claim the place:This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:Then, taking him from thence that is not there,You break no privilege nor charter there.Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;But sanctuary children ne'er till now.



Speaker (1 point) Buckingham

Spoken to (1 point): Cardinal

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is right after Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of York take young Prince Edward and York into sanctuary. The Cardinal objects to trying to retrieve the boys out of sanctuary to which Buckingham responds with this passage. He is basically saying not only do they not deserve to be there for it is for those who have committed crimes, they are also children and not for them.

I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;But, for his purpose in the coronation.I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'dHis gracious pleasure any way therein:But you, my noble lords, may name the time;And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.



Speaker (1 point) Hastings

Spoken to (1 point): Buckingham

Situation and Relevance (3 points): While trying to figure out the time of Richard’s coronation, Buckingham states that Richard loves Hastings. Hastings then replies with this. He is saying that though he has not asked him what time he would want, offer one up and he will tell Richard of it.

Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,To stay him from the fall of vanity:And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,True ornaments to know a holy man.Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,Lend favourable ears to our request;And pardon us the interruptionOf thy devotion and right Christian zeal.

Play (1 Point): Richard III


Speaker (1 point) Buckingham

Spoken to (1 point): Announcing to Lord Mayor and those gathered

Situation and Relevance (3 points): When Richard is trying to get support for his kingship, he stages a mock religious reading with him and two priests. Buckingham says these words to both show Richard’s piety and ask for his audience.

From forth the kennel of thy womb hath creptA hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,That foul defacer of God's handiwork,That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.O upright, just, and true-disposing God,How do I thank thee, that this carnal curPreys on the issue of his mother's body,And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!



Speaker (1 point) Queen Margaret

Spoken to (1 point): Duchess of York, Queen Elizabeth is present too

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Queen Margaret is saying this to the Duchess of York with Queen Elizabeth present. It is partly a description of King Richard and also about how he has killed so many people.

The last was I that helped thee to the crown;The last was I that felt thy tyranny:O, in the battle think on Buckingham,And die in terror of thy guiltiness!Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!



Speaker (1 point) Buckingham’s Ghost

Spoken to (1 point): Richard

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Richard is asleep and has the ghosts of all those he had killed come to him in succession. Buckingham is the final ghost to appear to him. Here Buckingham is cursing him to fall in the upcoming battle with Richmond.

Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;And in dimension and the shape of natureA gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;He might have took his answer long ago.

Play (1 point): Twelfth Night


Speaker (1 point) Olivia

Spoken to (1 point): Viola

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Viola is at Olivia’s house trying to persuade her to see Orsino and telling her how much he loves her. Despite everything Viola says, and even though he has all the qualities she describes here, Olivia states that she still cannot love him

She returns this ring to you, sir: you might havesaved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.She adds, moreover, that you should put your lordinto a desperate assurance she will none of him:and one thing more, that you be never so hardy tocome again in his affairs, unless it be to reportyour lord's taking of this. Receive it so.



Speaker (1 point) Malvolio


Situation and Relevance (3 points): Viola has just gotten done talking with Olivia about considering Orsino’s love. Once Viola leaves, Olivia sends Malvolio after her to give her a ring. This is what he says right after he finds her. Olivia wants her to return it to Orsino, but since Viola didn’t give Olivia a ring from him in the first place, she is sort of puzzled.

Too old by heaven: let still the woman takeAn elder than herself: so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.

Play (1 Point): Twelfth Night


Speaker (1 point) Orsino


Situation and Relevance (3 points): Orsino and Viola are talking about a woman she says she knows that is a lot like Orsino. This is what Orsino says when Viola tells him her age. He’s saying that is too old and that women should have older men, so they can satisfy their man’s needs and desires better, being younger.

'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars Iam above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: someare born great, some achieve greatness, and somehave greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates opentheir hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Beopposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; letthy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself intothe trick of singularity: she thus advises theethat sighs for thee. Remember who commended thyyellow stockings, and wished to see thee evercross-gartered: I say, remember.

Play (1 Point): Twelfth Night



Spoken to (1 point): Himself (He is reading)

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This is a portion of the letter that Maria and the gang leave for Malvolio to discover. Maria wrote it, but they make it up to seem like it was left by Olivia, since Malvolio is secretly in love with her. He reads this as telling him he is meant for greater things and how to dress and act.

My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have yeno wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble liketinkers at this time of night? Do ye make analehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out yourcoziers' catches without any mitigation or remorseof voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nortime in you?




Spoken to (1 point): Toby, Andrew, Feste, & Maria

Situation and Relevance (3 points): This takes place at Olivia’s house. Malvolio walks in on the four characters above and admonishes mostly Toby, Andrew, and Feste for their loud, drunken behavior, to which Toby will answer him.

Kill what I love?--a savage jealousyThat sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,And that I partly know the instrumentThat screws me from my true place in your favour,Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;But this your minion, whom I know you love,And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,To spite a raven's heart within a dove.



Speaker (1 point) Orsino

Spoken to (1 point): Olivia

Situation and Relevance (3 points): Orsino is speaking with Olivia in the throne room of Illyria’s palace in the last act of the play. He is saying that since you are so cruel to still deny my love, I will take Cesario from you to spite you. His words say he will sacrifice Cesario, but whether or not he means it is another thing.

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