Identification Of British Plays To 1660

ACT 1. SCENE 1.1.
      [ENTER VOLPONE AND MOSCA]
     VOLPONE: Good morning to the day; and next, my gold:
     Open the shrine, that I may see my Saint.
… Hail the world"s soul, and mine! more glad than is
     The teeming earth to see the long"d-for sun
     Peep through the horns of the celestial Ram,
     Am I, to view thy splendour darkening his;
     That lying here, amongst my other hoards,
     Shew"st like a flame by night; or like the day
     Struck out of chaos, when all darkness fled
     Unto the centre.

The above lines open a comedic play by which author?

FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet againe?
In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine?
SECOND WITCH: When the Hurley-burley"s done,
When the Battaile"s lost, and wonne
THIRD WITCH: That will be ere the set of Sunne
FIRST: Where the place?
SECOND: Upon the Heath
…
ALL: Padock calls anon: faire is foule, and foule is faire,
Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre.

These three witches appear as characters in which Shakespearean tragedy?

CALIBAN: All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they"ll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin—shows, pitch me i" the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid "em; but
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.

From which Shakespearean play is this monologue taken?

IAGO: That Cassio loves her, I do well believe"t:
That she loues him, "tis apt, and of great Credite.
The Moore (howbeit that I endure him not)
Is of a constant, loving, Noble Nature,
And I dare thinke, he’ll prove to Desdemona
A most dear husband. Now I do love her too,
Not out of absolute Lust, (though peradventure
I stand accomptant for as great a sin)
But partly led to dyet my Revenge,
For that I do suspect the lustie Moore
Hath leap"d into my Seat. The thought whereof,
Doth (like a poysonous Minerall) gnaw my Inwardes:
And nothing can, or shall content my Soule
Till I am even"d with him, wife, for wife.

From which Shakespearean play is this monologue taken?

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me"
 
and
 
"Egypt, thou knew"st too well
My heart was to thy rudder tied by th" strings,
And thou shouldst tow me after. O"er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew"st, and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me."

The above lines are taken from which of Shakespeare"s plays?

I pray you all gyve your audyence,And here this mater with reverence,By fygure a morall play;The somonynge of Everyman, called it is,That of our lyves and endynge shewes,How transytory we be all daye:This mater is wonders precyous,But the entent of it is more gracyous,And swete to bere awaye.The story sayth—Man, in the begynnynge,Loke well, and take good heed to the endynge,Be you never so gay:Ye thynke sinne in the begynnynge full swete,Whiche in the ende causeth the soule to wepe,When the body lyeth in claye.Here shall you se how Felawship and Jolyte,Both Strengthe, Pleasure and Beaute,Wyll vade from the as floure in maye;For ye shall here, how our heven kyngeCalleth Everyman to a generall rekenynge:Gyve audyence, and here what he doth saye.

The above text is taken from an anonymous example of which kind of drama?

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.She is the fairies" midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiesOver men"s noses as they lie asleep;Her wagon spokes made of long spinners" legs,The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;Her traces, of the smallest spider web;Her collars, of the moonshine"s wat"ry beams;Her whip, of cricket"s bone; the lash, of film;Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,Not half so big as a round little wormPricked from the lazy finger of a maid;Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,Time out o" mind the fairies" coachmakers.

From which Shakespearean play is this monologue taken?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!I come to bury __________, not to praise him.The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones;So let it be with __________. The noble BrutusHath told you __________ was ambitious;If it were so, it was a grievous fault,And grievously hath __________ answer"d it.

Which Shakespearean character’s name belongs in the blanks above?

MEPHISTOPHELES: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven.

Who is the author of this play?

LORENZO: My lord, though Bel-imperia seeme thus coy,    Let reason holde you in your wonted ioy:    In time the sauage bull sustaines the yoake,    In time all haggard hawkes will stoope to lure,    In time small wedges cleaue the hardest oake,    In time the [hardest] flint is pearst with softest shower;    And she in time will fall from her disdaine,    And rue the sufferance of your freendly paine.

Who is the author of this play?