1. Shakespeare and Brave New World

2. Quote #1
“Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty…”

3. Quote #1 - Info Play quote is from: Hamlet
Who is speaking this line: Hamlet
What is the context: Hamlet is mad that Gertrude married Claudius so quickly after Hamlet’s dad died
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4. Quote #2
“When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed…”

5. Quote #2 - Info Play quote is from: Hamlet
Who is speaking this line: Hamlet
What is the context: Hamlet is plotting the best time/way in which to kill Claudius
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6. Quote #3
“Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet’s down is harsh…”

7. Quote #3 - Info Play quote is from: Troilus and Cressida
Who is speaking this line: Troilus
What is the context: Troilus is speaking to Cressida’s uncle about how much he loves her
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8. Quote #4
“Oh! She doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear…”

9. Quote #4 - Info Play quote is from: Romeo and Juliet
Who is speaking this line: Romeo
What is the context: Romeo has just spotted Juliet for the first time and is enamored by her beauty
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10. Quote #5 “Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother; cast me not away;
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies…”

11. Quote #5 - Info Play quote is from: Romeo and Juliet
Who is speaking this line: Juliet
What is the context: Juliet is trying to get her mother, Lady Capulet, to not force her to marry Paris
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12. Quote #6
“The murkiest den, the most opportune pace, the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust”

13. Quote #6 - Info Play quote is from: The Tempest
Who is speaking this line: Ferdinand
What is the context: Ferdinand is explaining how much he loves Miranda and wants to settle down with her
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14. Quote #7
“O thou weed, who are so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet that the sense aches at thee. Was this most goodly book made to write ‘whore’ upon? Heaven stops the nose at it…”

15. Quote #7 - Info Play quote is from: Othello
Who is speaking this line: Othello
What is the context: Desdemona is asking Othello if he believes she is faithful to him – he accuses her of being very fake towards him
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16. Quote #8
“How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world, that has such people in’t!”

17. Quote #8 - Info Play quote is from: The Tempest
Who is speaking this line: Miranda
What is the context: Miranda is laying eyes on other people for the first time (she has grown up on a deserted island)
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18. Quote #9
The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes”

19. Quote #9 - Info Play quote is from: King Lear
Who is speaking this line: Edgar
What is the context: Edgar reveals himself to his brother Edmund for the first time while explaining the idea of karma (since Edward has been evil; he has bad things happen to himself)
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20. Quote #10
“If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death”

21. Quote #10 - Info Play quote is from: Othello
Who is speaking this line: Othello
What is the context: Othello is expressing how happy he is to be with Desdemona once again after being apart for a long time
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