Drama Flashcards
Antony and Cleo
‘There is nothing left remarkable beneath the fleeting moon’
‘Glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn.’
‘Beggary in the love that can be reckoned’
‘Young boys and girls and now level with men’
Antony and Cleo - structure
Rhetoric questions:
‘hast thou no care of me?’ ‘Noblest of men woot die?’
Othello
‘smooth as monumental alabaster’
‘She must die, else she will betray more men’
‘If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again your former light restore’
‘I will kill thee and love thee after’
‘Huge eclipse of sun and moon’
As you like it
‘young orlando, that tripped up the wrestlers heels and your heart’
‘I have heard him read many lectures against it.’
About women: ‘all like one another, as half pence are’
‘one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow fault came to match it’
‘quoitdition of love’
‘Wmen still give lie to their consciences.’
As you like it - Structure
Lots of questions - overhelming
Rosalind testing - courtly love, Commands the scene.
Romeo and Juliet
‘More light and light; more dark and dark our woes’
‘ Let me be put to death, I am content, so thou wilt have it so’
‘gone and live or stay and die’
Romeo and Juliet - structure
Rhyme scheme - rhyming couplets, unity, speeds up indicating time running out.
The Way of the World -Congreve
‘Dwindle into a wife’
‘enlarged into a husband’
‘Shall i kiss your hand upon the contract’
‘My dear liberty, shall I leave thee?’
‘As if we were proud of each other one week, and ashamed of each other for ever after’
‘grown as familiar to me as my own frailties’
Much Ado about nothing
‘Thou shalt have her’
‘War thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms coe thronging soft and delicate desires’
The Country Wife
‘Huntsmen in starting the game’
‘I must give sparkish £5000 to lie with my sister’
‘Good wives, like private soldiers, should be ignorant.’
‘A marriage vow is like a penitent gamesters oath’
women are made ‘loyal by good pay, rather than by oaths’
‘I am resolved to like him’
‘cross-breeding’
‘The best and truest love in the world./That is with no matrimonial love’
‘would not marry a wife that I alone could love’
‘Harcourt dressed as a parson’
Contrast betweenAlthea’s logic and resolution, and Mrs Pinchwife ‘ I have got the London disease they call love’
‘second-hand grave’