Test yourself on the first utterances in Sh’s Plays!
Alright, we can agree by the number that Two Noble Kinsmen is not one of them. Some are obvious, others not so.
Here they are in no particular order or chronology:
1. “Cease to persuade my loving Proteus;
2. “Let fame that all hunt after in their lives
3. ˜Proceed, Solanus, to procure my fall
4. ˜Two households both alike in dignity
5. “I’ll pheeze you in faith
6. ˜Now say Chatillon, what would France with us
7. ˜Now fair Hippolyta our nuptial hour draws on apace
8. ˜In sooth I know not why I am so sad
9. ˜Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster
10. ˜So shaken as we are so wan with care
11. ˜Rumour open your ears; for which of you will stop the vent of hearing when loud rumour speaks
12. ˜Sir Hugh persuade me not
13. ˜I learn in this letter Don Pedro of Aragon comes this night to Messina
14. ˜In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband
15. ˜O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention
16. ˜As I remember Adam, it was upon this fashion
17. ˜To sing a song that old was sung, from ashes Ancient Gower is come
18. ˜If music be the food of love play on
19. ˜Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night
20. ˜As by your high imperial majesty
21. ˜I wonder how the king escaped our hands
22. ˜Good day sir
23. ˜Now is the winter of our discontent
24. ˜Aeschulus!
25. ˜I come no more to make you laugh
26. ˜You do not meet a man but frowns
27. ˜Bosun!
28. ˜I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall
29. ˜Before we proceed any further hear me speak
30. ˜If you shall chance Camillo, to visit Bohemia
31. ˜In Troy, there lies a scene
32. ˜Who’s there?
33. ˜Hence! Home you idle creatures get you home
34. ˜When shall we three meet again
35. ˜Nay, but this dotage of our generals o’erflows the measure
36. ˜Noble Patricians patrons of my right
37. ˜Tush! never tell me
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- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Love’s Labours Lost
- Comedy of Errors
- Romeo and Juliet
- Taming of the Shrew
- King John
- Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Merchant of Venice
- Richard the Second
- Henry the Fourth part 1
- Henry the Fourth part 2
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Alls Well that Ends Well
- Henry the Fifth
- As You Like It
- Pericles
- Twelfth Night
- Henry the Sixth part 1
- Henry the Sixth part 2
- Henry the Sixth part 3
- Timon of Athens
- Richard the Third
- Measure for Measure
- Henry the Eighth
- Cymbeline
- The Tempest
- King lear
- Coriolanus
- A Winter’s Tale
- Troilus and Cressida
- Hamlet
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- Titus Andronicus
- Othello