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Do you not hear him? You mar our labor. Keep your cabins; you do assist the storm...What cares these roarers for the name of the king? To cabin! Silence! Trouble us not!...None that I love more than myself you are a councilor; if you can command these elements to silence and work the peace of the present...use your authority.
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The Tempest Act 1
The Boatswain speaking to Gonzalo. +the power of nature |
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If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this war...
Be collected no more amazement tell your piteous heart there's no harm done |
The Tempest Act 1
Miranda speaking to her father Prospero and his response +wonder and pity |
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I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind... to have no screen between this part he played and him he played it for, he needs will be Absolute Milan. Me my library was dukedom large enough.
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The Tempest Act 1
Prospero recounting Antonio's betrayal to Miranda *repetition of Dost thou hear? +masters and servants |
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Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, let me remind thee what thou promised, which is not yet performed me...my liberty.
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The Tempest Act 1
Ariel speaking to Prospero +Labor and resentment/ Labor and rebellion |
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Dost thou forget from what torment I did free thee? I must if thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howled away twelve winters.
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The Tempest Act 1
Prospero threatening Ariel +Rehearsing the past |
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Thou most lying slave, whom stripes may move not kindness! I have used thee with human care, and lodged thee in mine own cell till thou didst seek to violate the honor of my child.
O ho O ho! would't had been done thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else this isle with Calibans. |
The Tempest Act 1
Prospero speaking and Caliban's response +colonizing subjects language lessons |
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You taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language.
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The Tempest Act 1
Caliban speaking to Prospero +colonizing subjects and language lessons |
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I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island; I'll bring thee to clust'ring filberts and sometimes I'll get thee you scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
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The Tempest Act 2
Caliban speaking to Stephano and Triniculo +Idyllic visions |
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not... I cried to dream again.
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The Tempest Act 3
Caliban speaking to Stephano and Triniculo +Idyllic visions |
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Had I plantation of this isle, my lord... I would with such perfection govern, sir, T' excel the Golden Age
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The Tempest Act 2
Gonzalo speaking to Antonio and Sebastion about a place of no kingship that he would rule +New world Utopianism |
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What have we hear? A man or a fish? Dead or alive?... When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
This is some monster of the isle...get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather. |
The Tempest Act 2
Triniculo and then Stephano commenting on Caliban +Cynicism and the market for New World Wonder |
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Freedom, high day! High day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!
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The Tempest Act 2
Caliban singing drunkenly +Rebellion and freedom |
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Flout 'em and scout 'em and scout 'em and flout 'em! Thought is free.
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The Tempest Act 3
Stephano singing +Rebellion and freedom |
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Honor, riches, marriage blessing, long continuance, and increasing...
Earth's increase, foison plenty, barns and garners never empty, vines and clustering bunches growing...Scarcity and want shall shun you; Ceres' blessing so is on you |
The Tempest Act 4
Juno, Ceres +Prospero's Masque |
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep. Sir, I am vexed. Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled.
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The Tempest Act 4
Prospero *All insubstantial disillusioned we are all dreams +The return of the repressed |
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And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling of their afflictions and shall not myself, one of their kind, that relish all as sharply, passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
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The Tempest Act 5
Prospero to Ariel +Empathy and humanity |
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But this rough magic I here abjure; and when I have required some heavenly music which even now I do to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff...
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The Tempest Act 5
Prospero *micromanaging everything on the island +Drowning books |
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O, wonder! How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in't!
'Tis new ti thee |
The Tempest Act 5
Miranda and then Prospero's response +Innocent wonder VS Bitter knowledge |
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I have no way and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw... Oh dear son Edgar the food of thy abused father's wrath! Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I'd say I had eyes again!
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King Lear Act 4
Gloucester speaking to an old man +Blindness and insight |
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Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided in three our kingdom; and tis our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths, while we unburthened crawld toward death...and here are to be answered.
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King Lear Act 1
Lear +Lear's folly, the division of the kingdom |
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Tell me my daughters which of you shall we say doth love us most, that we our largest bounty may extend where nature doth with merit challenge.
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King Lear Act 1
Lear +Lear's folly, the love test |
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Only we shall reatain the nameand all the addition to a king. The sway, revenue, execution of the rest, beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm, this coronet between you.
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King Lear Act 1
Lear +Lear's folly, the king with no kingdom |
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Nothing, my lord. Nothing? Nothing. Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again.
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King Lear Act 1
Cordelia's response to Lear's love test +Lear's folly and a play spun out of "nothing" |
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When thou clovest thy crown i' th' middle and gav'st away both parts, thou bor'st thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt. Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gav'st thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in this, let him be whipped that first finds it so.
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King Lear Act 1
Fool enlightening Lear +In praise of folly |
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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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King Lear Act 1
Lear speaking with the fool after Goneril tries to eliminate his army +Lear's passion |
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O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, thy element's below. Where is this daughter?
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King Lear Act 2
Lear speaking with the Fool waiting to speak to Regan about Goneril's actions +Lear's passion |
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They flattered me like a dog, and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there...they told me I was everything; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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King Lear Act 4
Lear +from ignorance to knowledge |
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To take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury, in contempt of man, brought near to beast...poor turlygod, poor tom, that's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.
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King Lear Act 2
Edgar +The thing itself, playing madness, playing poor Tom. |
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Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this?... unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come unbutton here.
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King Lear Act 3
Lear +The thing itself |
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Hold your hand, my Lord! I have served you ever since I was a child; But better service have I never done you than now to bid you hold.
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King Lear Act 3
First Servant whom Regan stabs from behind +Lear and Human generosity |
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Come, your hovel. Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee.
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King Lear Act 3
Lear +Lear and Human generosity |
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Though the rain it raineth everyday
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King Lear Act 3
Fool * speaking of the despair that is present throughout the play |
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My name is Edgar, and thy father's son the 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.
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King Lear Act 5
Edgar +And justice for us all |
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.
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King Lear Act 4
Gloucester speaking to the old man +and justice for all |
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No, no, no. no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage" as if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs and sects of great ones that ebb and flow by the moon.
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King Lear Act 5
Lear to Cordelia +Forgiveness and redemption |
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"So shaken as we are, so wan with care...But this our purpose now is twelve month old, and bootless 'tis to tell you we will go..."
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King Henry in Henry IV Part One
Act 1 very beginning of the play *Wants to move army abroad to Jerusalem in a crusade to reclaim the hold land *prove his legitimacy as king *civil trifle in the way *somber mood *the world of court |
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"Now, Hal, what time of day is it lad? ...I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day."
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Falstaff to Hal and Hal's response to his question in Henry IV
Act 1 Scene 2 beginning *Comic relief *Have infinite time *stark contrast to scene 1 *the world of eastcheap |
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"Yea, there thou makest me sad an makest me sin... Then would I have his Harry, and he mine."
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King Henry in Henry IV Part One speaking to Westmoreland
*Wishes he could exchange Hal for Hotspur *Fathers and Sons |
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"Yet herein will I imitate the sun...I'll so offend to make offense a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will."
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Hal in Henry IV Part 1
Spoken after speaking with Poins and Falstaff *grand plan *using his friends *prodigal son *manipulating suggests he is aware *repeated throughout the play *son vs sun *move between realms *learning the languages (Francis in the tavern, "To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life." *eye for public relation *Strategic slumming and redeememption |
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"Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves the scourge of greatness to be used on it - and that same greatness too which our own hands have holp to make so portly."
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Henry IV Part 1
Worcester speaking to the King Beginning of Act 1 Scene 3 *Sees the king as the enemy *Loyalty and betrayal and Richard II prediction |
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"...this unthankful king... this ingrate and cank'red Bolingbroke."
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Henry IV Part 1
Hotspur speaking to Northumberland *infected king *Loyalty and betrayal and Richard II prediction |
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"The King will always think him in our debt, ans think we think ourselves unsatisfied, till he hath found a time to pay us home. And see already how he doth befin to make us strangers to his looks of love"
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Henry IV Part 1
Worcester to Hotspur *Loyalty and betrayal and Richard II prediction |
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"And I prithee sweet wag, when thou art king...marry then sweet wag, when thou art king, but I prithee sweet wag when there be gallows standing in England when thou art king?...Do not tho, when thou art king, hang a thief."
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Henry IV Part 1
Falstaff speaking to Hal *Carnival's end |
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"I will redeem all this on Percy's head... Percy is but my factor, good my lord."
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Henry IV, Part 1
Act 3 Hal speaking to the King *redemption *foreshadowing heroic act *redemption, honor, economics |
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"At my nativity the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes of burning cressets and at my birth the frame and huge foundation of the earth saked like a coward...I think there's no man speaks better Welsh. I'll to dinner."
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Henry IV
Glendower speaking and Hotspur's retaliation Act 3 *representing a nation divided *Glendower:Warrior, Poet, Sorcerer |
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"Against the irregular and wild Glendower...without much shame retold or spoken of."
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Henry IV Act 1
Westmoreland addressing the King *Guerrilla warfare *desecration of the dead *The "Wild and Irregular" Welsh |
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Come, here is the map. Shall we divide our right according to our threefold order taken? The remnant northward lying off from Trent.
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Henry IV Act 3
Glendower and Mortimer +Dividing the realm |
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Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: to rob me of so rich a bottom here.
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Henry IV Act 3
Hotspur +Dividing the realm |
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I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."
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Henry IV Act 2
Prince Hal +Contending for English Masculinity Death and Glory |
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Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool art thou to break into this woman's mood
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Henry IV Act 1
Northumberland to Hotspur +effeminizing passion |
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By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale faced moon, so he that doth redeem her thence might wear without corrival all her dignities.
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Henry IV Act 1
Hotspur to Northumberland +That word honor |
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O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth! I better brook the loss of brittle life than those proud titles thou hast won of me
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Henry IV Act 5
Hotspur before dying +Honor redeemed |
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... 'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me, scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man.
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Henry IV Act 5
Falstaff +Falstaff's resurrection counterfeiting death |
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God save thy grace, King Hal! My royal Hal! My King, my jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! I have long dreamt of such a kind man, so surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But. being awak'd, I do despise my dream... |
2 Henry 4, Act 5
Falstaff and Hal +the rejection of Falstaff and Carnival's end |
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Tush! Never tell me? I take it much unkindly that thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
'Sblood, but you will not hear me! If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me. Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in the hate Despise me If I do not. |
Othello Act 1
Roderigo and Iago +Sowing discord in Venice |
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Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you. Because you think we are ruffians, you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have courses for cousins, and gennets for germans.
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Othello Act 1
Iago talking to Brabantio +Iago's virulent bigotry |
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Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners... why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
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Othello Act 1
Iago to Roderigo *Champion of will +motiveless malignity |
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Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that which heaven hath forbut the Ottomites? For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl!
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Othello Act 2
Othello +The Mediterranean Context |
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; but, O, what damned minutes tells he over who dotes, yet doubts -suspects yet fondly loves!
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Othello Act 3
Iago +The Green Eyed monster |
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But jealous souls will not be answered so; they are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.
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Othello Act 3
Emilia +the green eyed monster |
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Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see she has deceived her father. and may thee
My life upon her faith! |
Othello Act 1
Brabantio to Othello +the green-eyed monster |
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Not to affect many proposed matches of her own clime, complexion and degree whereto we see in all things nature tends foh! one may smell in such a will most rand, foul disproportions, thoughts unnatural.
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Othello Acr 3
Iago +Erring Barbarians and Supersubtle Venetians |
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I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husbands; their best conscience is not leave't undone, but kept unknown.
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Othello Act 3
Iago +"Insider" knowledge |
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Now by yond marble heaven in the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words
Do not rise yet. Witness, you ever-burning lights above, you elements that clip us round about witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit hands and heart to wronged Othello's service! Let him command, and to obey shall be in me remorse what bloody business ever. Now art thou my lieutenant I am your own forever |
Othello Act 3
Othello and Iago +Bonds and ceremonial rites |
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Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth, for the four winds blow in from every coast renowned suitors and her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece which makes her seat of Belmont Colchis' strand and many jasons come in quest of her.
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Merchant of Venice Act 1
Bassanio +Investing in romance/ lady richly left |
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And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn to have the due and forfeit of my bond. If you deny it, let the danger light upon your charter and your city's freedom
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Merchant of VeniceAct 4
Shylock +Justice and Mercy |
