Renaissance quotes

Question 1

Richard III Manipulation 1

Answer 1

Richard: ‘Well, your imprisonment shall not be long, I will deliver or else lie for you’

Question 2

Richard III Manipulation 2

Answer 2

Richard: ‘I say, without character, fame lives long [aside] Thus, like the formal vice, I moralize two meanings in one word’

Question 3

Richard III Justice 1

Answer 3

Richard: ‘Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours’

Question 4

Richard III Justice 2

Answer 4

Richard: ‘But yet I run before my horse to market’

Question 5

Richard III Power 1

Answer 5

Richard: ‘Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy, and leave the world for me to bustle in’

Question 6

Richard III Power 2

Answer 6

Richard: ‘Why, this it is when men are rul’d by women’

Question 7

Richard III Gender 1

Answer 7

Richard: ‘ Why, this it is when men are rul’d by women’

Question 8

Richard III Gender 2

Answer 8

Anne: ‘ O wonderful, when devil tells truth!’
Richard: ‘ More wonderful when angels are so angry’

Question 9

Richard III Death 1

Answer 9

Richard: ‘So wise so young, they say never live long’

Question 10

Richard III Death 2

Answer 10

Richard: ‘Talk’st thou to me of ‘ifs’? Thou art a traitor. Off with his head!’

Question 11

DofM Lies and Deceit 1

Answer 11

Ferdinand: ‘Excellent, as I would wish, she’s plagued in art’

Question 12

DofM Lies and Deceit 2

Answer 12

Duchess: ‘Where I am a man, I’d beat that counterfeit face into thy other’

Question 13

DofM Marriage 1

Answer 13

Antonio: ‘It locally contain either heaven or hell’

Question 14

DofM Marriage + women 2

Answer 14

Duchess: ‘Diamonds are of most value. They say, that have passed through most jewelers’ hand’

Question 15

DofM Suffering 1

Answer 15

Bosola: ‘We are merely the stars’ tennis balls, struck and banded, Which way please them.’

Question 16

DofM Suffering 2

Answer 16

Duchess: ‘And Fortune seems only to have her eye-sight

To behold my tragedy.’

Question 17

DofM Morality/ Justice 2

Answer 17

Cardinal: ‘How tedious is a guilty conscience!’

Question 18

DofM Morality/ Justice 1

Answer 18

Bosola: ‘Miserable age, where only the reward

Of doing well is the doing of it.’ - you can be good but no one will reward you of it

Question 19

DofM Society and Class 1

Answer 19

Antonio: ‘Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness’

Question 20

DofM Power 1

Answer 20

Duchess: ‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’ - imprisons her as well as gives her power.

Question 21

DofM Power 2

Answer 21

Bosola: ‘Places in court are but beds in a hospital.’ - Where this mans head was at and this mans foot, so lower and lower.

Question 22

Hamlet Women 1

Answer 22

Claudios: ‘O Gertrude come away!’

Question 23

Hamlet Women 2

Answer 23

Hamlet: ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ - Imperative

Question 24

Hamlet Death 1

Answer 24

Polonius: ‘O I am slain’

Question 25

Hamlet Death 2

Answer 25

Gertrude: ‘Your sister’s drowned Laetres’

Question 26

Hamlet Morality 1

Answer 26

Horatio: ‘What, has this thing appeared again tonight?’ the death of King Hamlet has caused the kingdom to stand still.

Question 27

Hamlet Lies and deceit 2

Answer 27

Laetres: ‘I am justly killed with mine own treachery.’

Question 28

Hamlet Lies and deceit 1

Answer 28

Polonius: ‘At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him.
[To the King.] Be you and I behind an arras then.
Mark the encounter:’ - acting as the king.

Question 29

Hamlet Supernatural 1

Answer 29

Ghost: ‘Mark me’ … ‘I am thy fathers spirit’