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Quotes Flashcards

1
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Angelo test

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‘let there be some more test made of my metal’

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Angelo morality and mercy

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‘mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue, and heart’

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The Duke the people

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‘i love the people, but do not like to stage me to their eyes’

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Claudio restraint

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‘so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint’

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Armour

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‘like unscour’d armour, hung by th’wall’

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Isabella persuasive

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‘she has a prosperous art when she will play with reason and discourse’

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The Duke isolation

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‘ever lov’d the life remov’d’

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Angelo personality

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‘a man of stricture and firm abstinence’

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Laws in vienna

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‘we have strict statutes and most biting laws…which for fourteen years we have let slip’

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Baby

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‘Liberty plucks Justice by the nose, the baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart goes all decorum’

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The Duke’s fault

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'’twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them for what i bid them do’

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Seemers

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‘hence we shall see if power change purpose, what our seemers be’

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Isabella restraint

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‘I speak not as desiring more, but rather wishing a more strict restraint’

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Lucio Isabella

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‘I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted’

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Lucio the Duke’s gone

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‘the Duke is very strangely gone from hence’

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Angelo blood

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‘a man whose blood is very snow-broth’

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Angelo punishing Claudio

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‘follows close the rigour of the statute to make him an example’

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18
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Scarecrow

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‘we must not make a scarecrow of the law’

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Tempted Escalus

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‘tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, another thing to fall’

20
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Angelo and low-lives

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‘hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all’

21
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Pompey to Esaclus

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‘does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?

22
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Elbows malapropisms

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‘detest’ v protest
‘cardinally’ v carnally
‘respected’ v suspected

23
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Isabella virtue

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‘a very virtuous maid’

24
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Juliet

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‘the fornicatress’

25
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Giant

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‘it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant’

26
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breeds

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‘my sense breeds with it’

27
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Bribe

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‘how! Bribe me?’

28
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Tempt

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‘is this her fault, or mine? The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most’

29
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Angelo whore

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‘never could the strumpet…stir my temper: but this virtuous maid subdues me quite’

30
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Angelo’s lust

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‘the strong and swelling evil of my conception’

31
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Horn

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‘let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn’

32
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Isabella crafty

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‘either you are ignorant, or seem so, crafty’

33
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Sister die

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‘better it would a brother dies at once, than that a sister, by redeeming him, should die forever’

34
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Isabella innuendo

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‘keen whips’

35
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Angelo’s power in society

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‘my false o’erweighs your true’

36
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Race

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‘i give my sensual race the reign’

37
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Isabella chastity

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‘more than our brother is our chastity’

38
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Outward

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‘o, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’

39
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Angelo satan

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‘a devil’

40
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Isabella cruel to Claudio

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‘I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death; no word to save thee’

41
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Scale

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‘a feather will turn the scale’

42
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Lucio the duke

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‘the old fantastical duke of dark corners’

43
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Angelo’s crimes

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‘an adulterous thief, an hypocrite, a virgin-violator’

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Isabella the Duke truth

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‘let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seem hid, and hide the false seems true’

45
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the Duke women

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‘why you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife!’

46
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Measure at the end

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‘Measure still for Measure’

47
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Corruption

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‘Corruption boil and bubble’

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