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The Tempest (IV, 1): Prospero
PROSPERO Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And,...
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (I, 2): Ferdinand
FERDINAND My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My father’s loss, the weakness which I feel, The wreck of all my friends, nor ...
William Shakespeare
Othello (V, 2): Desdemona's Murder
OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause. Yet I’ll not shed her...
William Shakespeare
Othello (IV, 3): Emilia and Desdemona
EMILIA Why, the wrong is but a wrong i’ th’ world; and, having the world for your labor, ’tis a wrong in your own world, and you might...
William Shakespeare
Othello (III, 3): Othello's Oath
OTHELLO Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic Sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the...
William Shakespeare
Othello (III, 3): Othello's Jealousy
OTHELLO Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declined Into the vale...
William Shakespeare
Othello (II, 2): Iago's Tirade
IAGO And what’s he, then, that says I play the villain, When this advice is free I give and honest, Probal to thinking, and indeed the...
William Shakespeare
Othello: (II, 1) Othello's Love
OTHELLO It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. O my soul’s joy! If after every tempest come such calms, May...
William Shakespeare
Othello (I, 3): Iago's Hatred
BARBANTIO Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee. He exits. OTHELLO My life upon...
William Shakespeare
Othello (I, 3): Othello and Desdemona's Love
OTHELLO Her father loved me, oft invited me, Still questioned me the story of my life From year to year—the battles, sieges, fortunes...
William Shakespeare
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