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Shakspeare's Mental Photographs

Chapter 2: QUESTION I. WHAT ARE YOU?
By William Shakespeare
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A parlor-game anthology that collects short lines from Shakespeare's plays and arranges them as answers to ten conversational prompts. Each prompt—covering identity, admired qualities, occupations, aversions, styles of beauty, ideals, first meetings and greetings, wishes, and futures—offers twenty numbered quotations cited by play and scene. Readers are invited to select responses to compose quick character portraits or to prompt social play, using dramatic utterances to suggest temperament, desire, and fate. The arrangement functions as both a compact quotation compendium and a playful instrument for improvisation, showcasing the variety of moods and voices across the dramatic works.

QUESTION I.
 
WHAT ARE YOU?

1.  I am Sir Oracle,
And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.
2.  A woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer.
Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 3.
3.  I am so full of business, I cannot answer thee acutely.
All’s Well That Ends Well. Act i. Scene 1.
4.  A braver soldier never couched lance,
A gentler heart did never sway in court.
Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Scene 2.
5.  Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.
6.  Infirm of purpose!
Macbeth. Act ii. Scene 2.
7.  Being a woman, I will not be slack
To play my part in fortune’s pageant.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 2.
8.  But man, proud man!
Drest in a little brief authority.
Measure for Measure. Act ii. Scene 2.
9.  To answer every man directly, and briefly,
Wisely, and truly. Wisely I say, I am a bachelor.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 3.
10.  Perfect.
Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.
11.  A man, who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Scene 4.
12.  A woman of an invincible spirit.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 4.
13.  A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
14.  A promise-breaker.
Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 8.
15.  A man, worth any woman.
Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.
16.  A railing wife.
Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.
17.  I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and
besides myself.
Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Scene 2.
18.  I am the very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.
19.  An angel! or, if not,
An earthly paragon!
Cymbeline. Act iii. Scene 6.
20.  As opposite to every good,
As the antipodes.
Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 4.