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Shakespeare Reference

Scavenger Hunt

Extra Credit

Find a Shakespeare reference “in the wild.”

S Things to include:

S Play title

S Line quoted correctly from the play

S Source (where you found it)

S Quote from the source (what was actually said)

Allusion

S An implied or indirect reference to a person,

event, or thing or to a part of another text.

S Most allusions are based on the assumption that

there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the

author and the reader and that therefore the reader

will understand the author's reference

You’ve hopefully seen this before…

Rotten in Denmark

S Play Title: Hamlet

S Quote from the play: “There’s something is rotten

in the state of Denmark ”

S Source: MLP episode

S Quote from the source: “There’s something

rotten in the state of wherever this is.”

Heaven, Earth, and Philosophy

S Play Title: Hamlet

S Quote from the play: “There are more things on heaven

and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your

philosophy.”

S Source: Novel The Red Heart of Jade by Marjorie M. Liu

S Quote from the source: “What do you know?” “Only that

there are more things on heaven and earth, Mr. Campbell,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Example

S Play Title: Richard III

S Quote from the play: “Now is the winter of

our discontent / Made glorious summer by this

sun of York.”

S Source: Song “Get Your Way” by Jamie

Cullum

S Quote from the source: “Who’d have thought

that entertainment lies in the winter of the

discontent.”

Misery and Bedfellows

S Play Title: The Tempest

S Quote from the play: “Misery acquaints a man

with strange bedfellows.”

S Source: Novel Still Life by Melanie Jackson

S Quote from the source: “Sometimes politics

make for more than strange bedfellows.”

Kill the Beast!

S Play Title: Macbeth

S Quote from the play: “But screw your courage to the

sticking place, and we’ll not fail.”

S Source: Movie Beauty and the Beast

S Quote from the source: “Get your torch. Mount your

horse. Screw your courage to

the sticking place.”

Random Julius Caesar

S Et tu, Brute? (Even you, Brutus?)

S Movie – Aladdin

S The book/movie title The Fault in Our Stars is taken

from this quote:

S “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but

in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

A Pound of Flesh

Origin S This figure of speech derives from Shakespeare’s play, The

Merchant of Venice, 1596. The insistence by Shylock of the

payment of Antonio’s flesh is the central plot device of the play

Contemporary Meaning

S a payment or punishment that involves suffering and

sacrifice by the person being punished.

S Something to which one is strictly or legally entitled,

but which is ruthless or inhuman to demand.

A Pound of Flesh

S Play Title: The Merchant of Venice

S Quote from the play: “A pound of flesh”

S Source: Novel Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh

S Quote from the source: “He’d been ready and

willing to have her carve out a pound of flesh,

which is why she hadn’t clawed him as much

as she’d thought she would.”

A Pound of Flesh

S Play Title: The Merchant of Venice

S Quote from the play: “A pound of flesh”

S Source: Novel The Master by Melanie Jackson

S Quote from the source: “And you? What is to

be your pound of flesh for this indiscretion?”

A Pound of Flesh

S Play Title: The Merchant of Venice

S Quote from the play: “A pound of flesh”

S Source: Novel Courier by Melanie Jackson

S Quote from the source: “Messy eater, but

then, being goblin as well as vampire, he’d

want his pound of flesh. And bone.”

Extra Credit

Find a Shakespeare reference “in the wild.”

S Things to include:

S Play title

S Line quoted correctly from the play

S Source (where you found it)

S Quote from the source (what was actually said)

10 points for every “pound of flesh” you bring me.

5 points for all other allusions