Quotes
Themes
before "the Bard"
I'm a Romantic
Novel novelists
100
The most famous quote in Hamlet.
What is "to be or not to be, that is the question?"
100
The themes of Hamlet
What are reason vs. passion and action vs. inaction?
100
The father of English literature
Who is Chaucer?
100
Wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Who is William Blake?
100
He used the science of deduction to solve mysteries.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
200
The witches say this when they hear Macbeth coming.
What is "by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
200
the famous play about two star-crossed lovers
What is Romeo and Juliet?
200
Wrote The Divine Comedy including "The Inferno," perhaps the worlds greatest and most famous epic poem.
Who is Dante?
200
He is willful, proud, individualistic, passionate, but flawed, and usually dies from an unwillingness to give in, in any way.
What is a Byronic hero?
200
She pefected the Victorian novel of society and manners, and love.
Who is Jane Austin?
300
A payment given for a debt; a cruel, vengeful way to collect a debt (from A Merchent in Venice)
What is "a pound of flesh?"
300
the quote in Macbeth which illustrates the theme things are not what they seem to be.
What is "fair is foul and foul is fair?"
300
The virtues of Beowulf, admired by the English in midevil times.
What are courage, strength, loyalty, and pride?
300
He wished he could be steadfast like a star, but instead was beautiful, but fleeting, like autumn leaves or happiness lying on a lover's breast.
Who was John Keats?
300
The Priest of Love, he wrote Women in Love
Who is D.H. Lawrence?
400
The play in which the main character makes the "Out, out brief candle; life is but a walking shadow..." speech
What is Macbeth?
400
Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost
What is "to justify the ways of God to man?"
400
It takes place over many countries and years and signifies the notions of a nation.
What is an epic poem?
400
Plato's famous quote, manifested in the life and writing of Keats
What is "truth is beauty, beauty truth?"
400
H.G. Wells's famous science fiction novels, recently made into movies.
What are War of the Worlds and The Time Machine?
500
The advice Polonius gives to his son Laertes.
What is "never a borrower nor a lender be?"
500
The theme of "The Pardoner's Tale"
What is "money is the root of all evil?"
500
It may have come from the Lady in the Lake or was pulled from a stone.
What is Excalibur?
500
He sometimes walked "as lonely as a cloud" formulating romantic lines about the divine in Nature.
Who is William Wordsworth?
500
The children under the robe of the second ghost in A Christmas Carol.
Who are Ignorance and Want?
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