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Shakespeare’s lifespan/ player group names/wife names

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1564-1616 / Chamberlain’s men - King’s Men / Anne Hathaway

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who has aural relationship Much Ado

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Beatrice & Benedick

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name the quote: “in time of savage the bull doth bear the yoke” “if this should every happen thou wouldst be horn mad”

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Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - the Prince & Claudio

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name the quote: “you must not sir mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war betwixt [x] and her. they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them”

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Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - Leonato

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name “I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labors which is to bring [x] and the [x] into a mountain of affection the’one with th’other.”

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Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - Don Pedro to Leonato - Claudio - Hero

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which play has eavesdropping

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Much Ado

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name “speak low if you speak of love”

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Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - Don Pedro to Hero

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“come bid me do anything for thee” “kill [x]” … “I must say she is dead

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and so farewell” Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - Benedick and Beatrice

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“Sweet [x]

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wouldst thou come when I called thee” “but for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me” Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare - Benedick

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which play has (tragic) dramatic irony

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Othello

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“look to her -[x]- if thous hast eyes to see. SHe has deceived her father - and may thee”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Brabantio

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“her father loved me

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oft invited me… she loved me for the dangers I had passed - and I loved her that she did pity them - this only is the witchcraft I have used” Othello - Shakespeare - Othello on how he wooed Desdemona

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“i looked upon her with a soldier’s eye”

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Much Ado - Shakespeare - Claudio about Hero

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“lay thy finger thus and let thy soul be instructed”

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Othello - Shakespeare- Iago

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“A pestilent complete knave - and the woman hath found him already”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Iago

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define Iambic + pentameter

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an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable - pentameter = a line of verse consisting of 5 feet

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“tis true. there’s magic in the web of it”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Othello talking of handkercheif

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“the lethargy must have his quiet course. if not - he foams at mouth - and by and by breaks out to savage madness”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Iago plotting evil

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“Handkerchief - confessions - handkercheif! - noses ears and lips - is’t possible - confess — handkercheif - o devil”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Othello talking

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“her eye must be fed”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Iago about Desdemona

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another name for the handkercheif in othello

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hand prop

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“that handkercheif did an egyptian to my mother give… conserved of maidens’ hearts”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Othello on the handkercheif

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“but yet [x] knows.. my father gave my mother”

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Othello - Shakespeare - Othello talking about handkercheif

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where did women propose a real-world sex strike

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South Sudan

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“a mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town- not to dwell in constantly - but only for a night and away - to taste the town the better when a man returns”
The Country Wife - William Wycherley - Dorilant
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“You told em twas by an English French disaster and an English French chirurgeon - wo has given me at once - not only a cure - but an antidote fo the future against that damned malady - and that worse distemper - love - and all other women’s evils”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Horner to Quack
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what is china a euphemism for
sex
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“tis my maxim - he’s a fool that marries - but he’s a greater that does marry a fool”
The Country Wife - William Wycherley - Pinchwife
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“So then you only married to keep a whore to yourself”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Horner to Pinchwife
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“I saw you yesterday in the 18 penny place with a country wench.. I was in love with her at a distance”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Horner to Pinchwife
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“I did not care for going; but when you forbid me - you make me - as ‘twere - desire it”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Margery Pinchwife
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“love proceeds from esteem… he would not marry me”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Alithea
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“Marrying you … take it from me immediately”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Harcourt to Alithea
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“I have only given your little brother an orange - sir”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Horner
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play with cuckoldry at the forefront
The Country Wife
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who gives Margery Pinchwife an orange
horner
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a single clown comedy where one man or woman is against the world
Old Comedy
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“what tink you of these grave people? is a wake in Essex half so mad or extravagant?” “I like their sober grave way; ’tis a ind of lega authorized fornication - where the men are not chid for’t nor the women despiseds - as amongst our dull English”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Belvile and Willmore
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sedgewick definition of cuckoldry
“to cuckold” is by definiton a sexual act - performed on a man - by another man
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what is homosocial
social bonds between persons of the same sex
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list 2 homosocial triangles The country wife
Alithea - Sparkish - Harcourt // Margery - Horner - Mr Pinchwife
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“ love proceed from esteem; he cannot distrust my virtue. Besides he loves me or he would not marry me” “Marrying you is no more sign of his love than bribing your woman - that he may marry you - is a sign of his generosity. Marriage is rather a sign of interest than love - and he that marries a fortune covets a mistress - not loves her. But if you take marriage for a sign of love - take it from me immediately”
The Country Wife - William Wycherley - Alithea and Harcourt
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“Lord - what d’ye make a fool of me for? Dont I know that letters are never writ but from the country to London and from London to the country?”
- The Country Wife - Wycherley - Margery
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“Write as I bid you - or I will write ‘whore’ with this penknife on your face”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Pinchwife
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“Dear - sweet [x]”
The Country Wife - Wycherley - Margery
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“This posture’s loose and negligent; the sight on’t would beget a ward desire. In souls whom impotence and age had chilled. This must along with me”
_The Rover - Aphra Behn - Willmore on Angellica’s portrait
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“The pay I mean is but the love for mine”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Angellica to Willmore
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“Ladies act like whores and whores act like ladies”
The Rover - Aphra Behn
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Rover love triangle
Angellica - Willmore & Hellena // + Sebastian and Moretta
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who was libertine Willmore modeled after
John Wilmot
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“all I have to woud with is my eyes”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Angellica
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“Live where my eyes may never see thee more”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Angellica
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“Good friend single-kiss”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Angellica Banter
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“but I - vainly proud of my judgement - hang out the sign of [x] (the only stolen object) to give notice where a great part of the wit dwelt”
The Rover - Aphra Behn - Postscript
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“texts by women writers… encode the signs of emblems of a female signature…”
nancy miller essay on gest
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what is aetheticism
art for art’s sake
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“what number in Belgrave Square” “the unfashionable side”
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Lady Bracknell and John
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“You have a town house I hope? A girl with a simplle unspoiled nature like [x] could hardly be expected to live in the country”
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Lady Bracknell to Earnest
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“ You must not laugh at me - darling - but it had always been a girlush dream of mine to love someone whose name was [x]. There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence”
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Cecily
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what is edward pixley’s claim
if the characts flat - plot focus // if round - character development focus
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Comedy of incongruity
one expects a certain situation and a different inappropriate one happens instead

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