Deck Flashcards
(39 cards)
A: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die…
B: Will you go hunt my lord?
A: Orsino
B: Curio
Twelfth Night 1.1
Orsino orders musicians to play music while he thinks about his unsuccessful attempt at getting Olivia’s love. Orsino’s attendant Curio asks if Orsino would go hunting.
A: What country, friends, is this?
B: This is Illyria, lady.
A: Viola
B: Captain
Twelfth Night 1.2
Viola had just survived a shipwreck and was inquiring about the land she just landed on.
A: …But I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
B: No question
A: Sir Andrew
B: Sir Toby
Twelfth Night 1.3
Andrew was put down by Olivia’s rejection and questions his own intelligence. Toby’s remark implies that he never had confidence in Andrew’s ability to win Olivia over in the first place.
A: I’ll do my best
To woo your lady. – Yet, a barful strife!
Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.
A: Viola(Cesario)
Twelfth Night 1.4
Orsino ordered Viola to persuade Olivia into marrying him. Viola accepts, but secretly reveals her adoration for Orsino.
A: Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent. Or to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?
B: Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
A: Maria
B: Feste
Twelfth Night 1.5
Maria tries to break Feste’s character by attempting to scare him, telling him about the harsh punishments he would receive for his long absence. It did not seem to work, however.
A: Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. God bless thee, Lady.
B: Take the Fool away.
A: Feste
B: Olivia
Twelfth Night 1.5
Olivia orders her attendants to take Feste away. Feste is unfazed and tells Olivia that she’s the fool.
A: How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
A: Olivia
Twelfth Night 1.5
Olivia notices that she has fallen in love with Cesario, (and orders Malvolio to “return” him a ring that he supposedly lost.)
A: O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.
A: Viola
Twelfth Night 2.2
Viola realizes the love triangle that’s forming between her, Orsino, and Olivia. She panics and decides to not do anything about the situation, and let time sort it out.
A: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
A: Sir Toby
Twelfth Night 2.3
Sir Toby, in a drunken state, speaks to Malvolia and mocks him for being a boring and stiff person, and that ale and cakes would not disappear just because he wants them to.
A: She pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
A: Viola
Twelfth Night 2.4
Orsino asks Viola about her father’s daughter’s love story. Viola answers that she never confessed her love, but sat silently and smiling at grief. Viola knows that the daughter is herself, but Orsino does not know.
A: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
A: Malvolio
Twelfth Night 2.5
The words are from a letter, disguised as Olivia’s own writing, but is actually written by Maria. Malvolio reads the letter, thinking that these words of admiration are describing him.
A: Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun. It shines everywhere…
B: Nay, an thou pass upon me, I’ll no more with thee. Hold, there’s expenses for thee.
A: Feste
B: Cesario
Twelfth Night 3.1
Cesario encounters Feste playing his tabor, Cesario is confused whether she is Lady Olivia’s fool or Duke Orsino’s fool (because he saw Feste with both of them.) Feste answers with another witty remark about how foolishness exists everywhere in the world.
A: If this were being acted out on a stage, I would complain that it was unrealistic.
A: Fabian
Malvolio has just made a fool of himself in front of Olivia. He storms off after he discovers it was the doings of Maria, Toby, Fabian. Fabian was so amused by Malvolio’s humiliation that he couldn’t believe it was real.
A: Prove true, imagination, oh, prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta’en for you!
A: Viola
Twelfth Night 3.4
Antonio mistakens Cesario for Sebastian, and scorns him for his betrayal. Cesario inferred from his words that her brother might still be alive, and wishes that she is truly being mistaken for her brother.
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons! A natural perspective, that is and is not!
A: Orsino
Twelfth Night 5.1
For the first time, Cesario and Sebastian appears in front of others at the same time. Orsino expresses his shock and amazement, exclaiming that it is an optical illusion.
A: …And so—what goes around comes around.
B: I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
A: Feste
B: Malvolio
Twelfth Night 5.1
Feste speaking to Malvolio, and he refers to a past insult that Malvolio made to Feste— “Madam, why do you laugh at such an empty-headed villain?” Malvolio swears to get his revenge on all of the people involved in the farce.
A: Cesario, come –
For so you shall be, while you are a man.
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen.
A: Orsino
Twelfth Night 5.1
After finding out that Viola(Cesario) is actually a woman, Orsino promises to marry Viola.
A: Nothing.
B: Nothing can come of nothing, speak again.
A: Cordelia
B: King Lear
King Lear 1.1
King Lear implies that Cordelia would have to flatter him with words to inherit land from him, but Cordelia refuses to make empty claims and vain praise in exchange for land.
A: Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
A: Edmund
King Lear 1.2
Edmund complains about the unfair treatment given to him because he was a bastard. He forges a letter in order to turn Gloucester against his brother, the legitimate son, Edgar.
A: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
A: King Lear
King Lear 1.4
Goneril scolds Lear and his knights for disrupting the peace in her house and demands Lear to reduce the number of knights with him from 100 to 50. Shocked at the drastic change of her temperament, Lear rages and curses her that she too experience what it’s like to have a thankless child.
A: You shouldn’t have gotten old until you’d also gotten wise.
A: Fool
King Lear 1.5
The Fool has a witty exchange with the now powerless King Lear. He subtlety hint at the King’s lack of wisdom with this phrase.
A: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout. Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
A: King Lear
King Lear 3.2
Outside in the elements, and no longer trusting that the heavens will bring justice and order, King Lear urges the storm to rage on and flood the world.
A: I am a man
More sinned against than sinning.
A: King Lear
King Lear 3.2
Outside in the elements still, King Lear makes this remark as he had previously referred to himself as a kind father, and yet, he is being mistreated by his own daughters.
A: As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods. They kill us for their sport.
A: Gloucester
King Lear 4.1
The blinded Gloucester thought about Edgar and the awful mistake he had made in making him his enemies. Gloucester makes this remark to describe the brutality of fate and the indifferent universe.
