Renaissance quotes Flashcards
Richard III Manipulation 1
Richard: ‘Well, your imprisonment shall not be long, I will deliver or else lie for you’
Richard III Manipulation 2
Richard: ‘I say, without character, fame lives long [aside] Thus, like the formal vice, I moralize two meanings in one word’
Richard III Justice 1
Richard: ‘Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours’
Richard III Justice 2
Richard: ‘But yet I run before my horse to market’
Richard III Power 1
Richard: ‘Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy, and leave the world for me to bustle in’
Richard III Power 2
Richard: ‘Why, this it is when men are rul’d by women’
Richard III Gender 1
Richard: ‘ Why, this it is when men are rul’d by women’
Richard III Gender 2
Anne: ‘ O wonderful, when devil tells truth!’
Richard: ‘ More wonderful when angels are so angry’
Richard III Death 1
Richard: ‘So wise so young, they say never live long’
Richard III Death 2
Richard: ‘Talk’st thou to me of ‘ifs’? Thou art a traitor. Off with his head!’
DofM Lies and Deceit 1
Ferdinand: ‘Excellent, as I would wish, she’s plagued in art’
DofM Lies and Deceit 2
Duchess: ‘Where I am a man, I’d beat that counterfeit face into thy other’
DofM Marriage 1
Antonio: ‘It locally contain either heaven or hell’
DofM Marriage + women 2
Duchess: ‘Diamonds are of most value. They say, that have passed through most jewelers’ hand’
DofM Suffering 1
Bosola: ‘We are merely the stars’ tennis balls, struck and banded, Which way please them.’
DofM Suffering 2
Duchess: ‘And Fortune seems only to have her eye-sight
To behold my tragedy.’
DofM Morality/ Justice 2
Cardinal: ‘How tedious is a guilty conscience!’
DofM Morality/ Justice 1
Bosola: ‘Miserable age, where only the reward
Of doing well is the doing of it.’ - you can be good but no one will reward you of it
DofM Society and Class 1
Antonio: ‘Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness’
DofM Power 1
Duchess: ‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’ - imprisons her as well as gives her power.
DofM Power 2
Bosola: ‘Places in court are but beds in a hospital.’ - Where this mans head was at and this mans foot, so lower and lower.
Hamlet Women 1
Claudios: ‘O Gertrude come away!’
Hamlet Women 2
Hamlet: ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ - Imperative
Hamlet Death 1
Polonius: ‘O I am slain’
Hamlet Death 2
Gertrude: ‘Your sister’s drowned Laetres’
Hamlet Morality 1
Horatio: ‘What, has this thing appeared again tonight?’ the death of King Hamlet has caused the kingdom to stand still.
Hamlet Lies and deceit 2
Laetres: ‘I am justly killed with mine own treachery.’
Hamlet Lies and deceit 1
Polonius: ‘At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him.
[To the King.] Be you and I behind an arras then.
Mark the encounter:’ - acting as the king.
Hamlet Supernatural 1
Ghost: ‘Mark me’ … ‘I am thy fathers spirit’