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Shakespeare Speeches
YGK These Shakespearean Speeches, Monologues, and Soliloquies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act and scene in which the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy is delivered | Act III, scene 1 |
| Characters listening in on Hamlet's conversation with Ophelia | Claudius and Polonius |
| How Hamlet describes death in his famous soliloquy | The undiscovered country |
| What Hamlet claims "does make cowards of us all" | Conscience |
| Speaker of the funeral oration in Julius Caesar | Mark Antony |
| Reason Brutus gives for killing Caesar | His love of Rome (Caesar was ambitious) |
| Opening line of Mark Antony’s funeral speech | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears |
| Specific Roman festival where Antony thrice offered Caesar a crown | The Lupercal |
| Title of the monologue delivered by Jaques in As You Like It | All the world’s a stage (or the Seven Ages of Man) |
| Forest setting of As You Like It | Forest of Arden |
| The final stage of man according to Jaques | Second childishness (Sans everything) |
| Shakespearean play containing the Saint Crispin’s Day speech | Henry V |
| Historical battle fought on Saint Crispin’s Day | Battle of Agincourt |
| Term Henry V uses to describe his army in his speech | We few, we happy few, we band of brothers |
| Reason Macbeth delivers the “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy | The death of Lady Macbeth |
| Metaphor Macbeth uses for the extinguishing of life | Out, out, brief candle! |
| Macbeth's description of life at the end of his soliloquy | A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury |
| Author who used a line from Macbeth's soliloquy for the title of a novel | William Faulkner |
| Speaker of the line “Now is the winter of our discontent” | Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
| The "son of York" who has become King at the start of Richard III | Edward IV |
| Physical description Richard III gives of himself | Ugly, deformed, hunchback |
| Richard III's resolution because he "cannot prove a lover" | To prove a villain |
| Character who delivers the "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks" monologue | King Lear |
| Lear's two daughters who betray him after receiving his kingdom | Regan and Goneril |
| Lear's honest daughter whom he disinherits | Cordelia |
| Character who accompanies Lear on the heath and urges him to seek shelter | The Fool |
| Lear's faithful servant who reunites with him during the storm | Kent |
| Act and scene of the "Balcony Scene" in Romeo and Juliet | Act II, scene 2 |
| Object Romeo compares Juliet to when he sees her at the window | The sun |
| Juliet's famous question asking "why" Romeo must be who he is | Wherefore art thou Romeo? |
| Flower Juliet uses to argue that names do not define the essence of a thing | A rose |
| Speaker of the "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech | Shylock |
| Play containing the "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech | The Merchant of Venice |
| Character from whom Shylock intends to extract a pound of flesh | Antonio |
| Messenger who asks Shylock what good a "pound of flesh" will do | Salarino |
| Speaker of the "Our revels now are ended" speech | Prospero |
| Play containing the "Our revels now are ended" speech | The Tempest |
| Prospero’s daughter whose marriage is celebrated with a masque | Miranda |
| The son of Alonso who is engaged to Miranda | Ferdinand |
| Spirit who presents the masque for Prospero | Ariel |
| The conspiracy that causes Prospero to interrupt the masque | A conspiracy involving Caliban |
| Prospero's famous line about the nature of life and dreams | We are such stuff as dreams are made on |
| The three goddesses featured in the masque in The Tempest | Iris, Ceres, and Juno |
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