Name that play!
“Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs.”
Twelfth Night
“Sweet lady, ho, ho!”
Malvolio
In Hamlet, Polonius thinks Hamlet is “still harping on” this person.
Ophelia
The trick played on Malvolio.
The other servants made him think Olivia loves him.
Malvolio’s behavior shows that he is not just in love with Olivia, but also very convinced of his own this.
Importance / superiority
“A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.”
Much Ado About Nothing
“You always end with a jade’s trick.”
Beatrice
In Julius Caesar, Brutus says he has no personal reason to act against Caesar, only this reason.
Rome
The trick played on Othello.
Someone (Iago) makes him think his wife is cheating on him.
Beatrice’s insults toward Benedick show that she is witty, guarded, and unwilling to appear...
Vulnerable / easily impressed / romantic
“O these men, these men!”
Othello
“The world’s a huge thing. It is a great price for a small vice.”
Emilia
Why is Romeo jealous of mice?
They can look at Juliet.
The "trick" Mark Anthony plays on Brutus.
Making him think he will just talk about Caesar's life at his funeral when really, he wants to stir up Rome against him.
Emilia’s speech suggests that she is more realistic than Desdemona about...
Marriage / men and women / husbands and wives
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.”
Hamlet
“You are a fishmonger.”
Hamlet
In Othello, Emilia argues that wives have this “like” husbands: “They see, and smell, / And have their palates both for sweet and sour.”
The trick Juliet is worried Friar Lawrence is playing on her and why.
He gave her a real poison so she dies and he doesn't break religious law by marrying her to another man when he already married her to Romeo.
Portia’s confrontation with Brutus shows that she wants to be treated as his true partner, not just a....
A decoration / outsider / someone kept in the dark
“I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth.”
Julius Caesar
“Dwell I but in the suburbs / Of your good pleasure?”
Portia
Brutus describes the time between deciding to do a terrible thing and actually doing it as being like this.
A phantasm or a hideous dream.
The trick Hamlet plays on Polonius.
Convincing Polonius that he's going crazy for Ophelia so that the king doesn't suspect that Hamlet knows what he did (killed the previous king).
Benedick’s long speech against love suggests that he is afraid of becoming...
A fool / ridiculous because of love