Drama Quiz Flashcards
The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
Hamlet
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come let’s go together.
Hamlet
I say you are the murderer of the king whose murderer you seek.
Tiresias
Stella-lahhhh!
Stanley
Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit in his life secure from pain.
Chorus
Never inside. I didn’t lie in my heart….
Blanche
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing to thy rest!
Horatio
That’s how I’ll clear the table!
Stanley
I doubt it is no other but the main, his father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.
Queen
Revenge is foul and most unusual murder.
Ghost
…was doomed to be murderer of my father that begot me.
Oedipus
Be sure, I would have done this had not I wished first all to learn from God the course of action I should follow.
Creon
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts– O wicked wit and gifts that have the power so to seduce!– won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming virtuous queen. O Hamlet, what a falling off was there
Ghost
Whoever you are– I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Blanche
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in your philosophy.
Hamlet
Hey, canary bird! Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM!
Stanley
Revenge should have no bounds.
Claudius
The day doth protest too much, methinks.
Queen
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind in southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Hamlet
Before this, in dreams too, as well as oracles, many a man has lain with his own mother, but he to whom such things are nothing bears his life most easily.
Jocasta
That gift you must ask of the God.
Creon
In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa.
Stanley
I don’t think I ever seen you in the light. That’s a fact.
Mitch
For when I drive pollution from the land I will not serve a distant friend’s advantage but act in my own interest. Whoever he was that killed the king may readily wish to dispatch me wish his murderous hand; so helping the dead king I he’ll myself.
Oedipus