Take our quiz to see how well you know Shakespeare’s plays. </p> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>7 Women Who Have Had Enough</strong></h2> </h2> <p><p>This quiz features seven speeches given by well-known female characters from Shakespeare’s plays who face personal affronts, double standards, and gross injustice. See if you can identify each character and the play in which she appears.</p> </p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>Who says this?</strong></h2> </h2> <p><p>“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,</p> <p>Who would believe me? O, perilous mouths,</p> <p>That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue,</p> <p>Either of condemnation or approof,</p> <p>Bidding the law make curtsy to their will,</p> <p>Hooking both right and wrong to th’ appetite,</p> <p>To follow as it draws.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <p><strong>Who says this?</strong></p> <h2></h2> </h3> <p><p>“Let husbands know</p> <p>Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell,</p> <p>And have their palates both for sweet and sour,</p> <p>As husbands have. What is it that they do</p> <p>When they change us for others? Is it sport?</p> <p>I think it is. And doth affection breed it?</p> <p>I think it doth. Is ’t frailty that thus errs?</p> <p>It is so too. And have not we affections,</p> <p>Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?</p> <p>Then let them use us well. Else let them know,</p> <p>The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Who says this?</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>“Why, he hath not been thrice in my company!</p> <p>What should I say to him? I was then frugal of my</p> <p>mirth. Heaven forgive me! Why, I’ll exhibit a bill</p> <p>in the Parliament for the putting down of men.</p> <p>How shall I be revenged on him? For revenged I</p> <p>will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Who says this?</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>“Good my lord,</p> <p>You have begot me, bred me, loved me.</p> <p>I return those duties back as are right fit:</p> <p>Obey you, love you, and most honor you.</p> <p>Why have my sisters husbands if they say</p> <p>They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,</p> <p>That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry</p> <p>Half my love with him, half my care and duty.</p> <p>Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,</p> <p>To love my father all.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <p>Who says this?</p> </h3> <p><p>“Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,</p> <p>And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.</p> <p>Your betters have endured me say my mind,</p> <p>And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.</p> <p>My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,</p> <p>Or else my heart, concealing it, will break,</p> <p>And, rather than it shall, I will be free</p> <p>Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Who says this?</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>“Since what I am to say must be but that</p> <p>Which contradicts my accusation, and</p> <p>The testimony on my part no other</p> <p>But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me</p> <p>To say “Not guilty.” Mine integrity,</p> <p>Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,</p> <p>Be so received. But thus: if powers divine</p> <p>Behold our human actions, as they do,</p> <p>I doubt not then but innocence shall make</p> <p>False accusation blush and tyranny</p> <p>Tremble at patience.”</p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Who says this?</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>“And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.</p> <p>If heaven have any grievous plague in store</p> <p>Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,</p> <p>O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe</p> <p>And then hurl down their indignation</p> <p>On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace.</p> <p>The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.</p> <p>Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st,</p> <p>And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends.</p> <p>No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,</p> <p>Unless it be while some tormenting dream</p> <p>Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.</p> <p>Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,</p> <p>Thou that wast sealed in thy nativity</p> <p>The slave of nature and the son of hell,</p> <p>Thou slander of thy heavy mother’s womb,</p> <p>Thou loathèd issue of thy father’s loins,</p> <p>Thou rag of honor, thou detested—”</p> <p></p> </p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>Thanks for taking our quiz!</strong></h2> </h2> <p><p>You can find all these Shakespeare lines – and the full plays – at The Folger Shakespeare: <a href="https://shakespeare.folger.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://shakespeare.folger.edu/</a></p> </p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Thanks for taking our quiz!</strong></h2> </h3> <p><p>You can find all these Shakespeare lines – and the full plays – at The Folger Shakespeare: <a href="https://shakespeare.folger.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://shakespeare.folger.edu/</a></p> </p> </section> <p> Quiz Maker – powered by Riddle Shakespeare & Beyond Stay connected Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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