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Life is a gamble at terrible odds-if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Topic

Nature of life The human condition

Speaker

Player

Author

Tom Stoppard

Source

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

Current Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 3.

Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Topic

Honesty Truth

Speaker

Mark Antony

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Antony and Cleopatra

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1607 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Debt

Speaker

Stephano

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Tempest

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

In view of that, conceal nothing! For all things are unfolded by all-seeing and all-hearing time.

Sophocles

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Topic

Forthrightness Openness

Author

Sophocles

Source

Hipponous

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

468 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments. c. 468 BC, frag. 301.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments, edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Harvard University Press, 1996, frag. 301.

There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!

John Dryden

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

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Topic

Insanity

Speaker

Torrismond

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Comedy (play) Tragedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "The Spanish Fryar." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper. Vol. 14, University of California Press, 1992, act 2, sc. 2.

The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his great sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex

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Tyrants

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Sophocles

Source

Oedipus Rex

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Ah, it's a lovely thing, to know a thing or two.

Molière

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Topic

Knowledge

Speaker

Monsieur Jourdain

Author

Molière

Source

The Middle Class Gentleman

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1671 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Moliere. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [The Bourgeois Gentleman]. 14 Oct. 1670, The Court of Louis XIV, Château of Chambord, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Moliere. "The Bourgeois Gentleman." Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman. Dover Publications, 1998, act 2, sc. 4.

Another’s soul is a dark forest.

Ivan Turgenev

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Topic

Limits of knowledge Connecting with others Intimacy

Speaker

Mikhail Alexandrovitch Rakitin

Author

Ivan Turgenev

Source

A Month in the Country

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

Russian

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Two Women. 1855, act 1.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. A Month in the Country. Oxford University Press, 1991, act 1.

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Topic

Humor and sadness Laughter Humor The human condition

Speaker

Lord Illingworth

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

A Woman of No Importance

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

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Topic

Charm Oppression of women Misogyny

Speaker

Mrs. Cheveley

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

An Ideal Husband

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Topic

Love is blind Love

Speaker

Jessica

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Merchant of Venice

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1598 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 6.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 6.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Talent Character

Speaker

Leonore

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Torquato Tasso

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Torquato Tasso. Leipzig, 1790, act 1, sc. 1.

Neither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous?

Aeschylus

The Eumenides

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Topic

Deterring crime Crime Fear Justice Human nature

Speaker

Athena

Author

Aeschylus

Source

The Eumenides

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play Greek theater

Statement Type

Question

Language

Greek

Time

458 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. The Eumenides. 458 BC, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. "The Eumenides." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida

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Topic

Accomplishment Hard work Work

Speaker

Cressida

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Troilus and Cressida

Medium

Play

Genre

Problem play

Language

English

Time

1603 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1603, The Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Troilus and Cressida." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Carrying on Life

Speaker

Chorus

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Murder in the Cathedral

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Demosthenes

Knights

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Topic

Reasons to drink Alcohol Getting drunk

Speaker

Demosthenes

Author

Aristophanes

Source

Knights

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

424 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aristophanes. Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs [The Knights]. 424 BC, Lenaia Festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "The Knights." The Birds and Other Plays, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2003.

No time like the present.

Delarivier Manley

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Topic

No time like the present The present

Speaker

Sir Amorous Courtall

Author

Delarivier Manley

Source

The Lost Lover

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1696 1690s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Manley, Mrs. The Lost Lover, or, the Jealous Husband. Mar. 1696, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Topic

New love Lost love Falling in love Love

Speaker

Proteus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

Of all human follies there's none could be greater
Than trying to render our fellow-men better.

Molière

The Misanthrope

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Topic

Helping others

Speaker

Philinte

Author

Molière

Source

The Misanthrope

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

French

Time

1666 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Molière. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux [The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover]. King's Players, 4 June 1666, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Moliere. "The Misanthrope." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1, sc. 1.

It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.

Molière

Tartuffe

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Moral theory Morality

Speaker

Tartuffe

Author

Molière

Source

Tartuffe

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

French

Time

1669 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Moliere. Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur [Tartuffe or the Impostor]. 5 Feb. 1669, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 4, sc. 5.

Current Citation

Moliere. "Tartuffe." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 5.