Classics Without All the Class discussion

Brave New World is filled with Shakespeare references. Let's try to find them all. List the quote and chapter. Then, the next person should guess which play it comes from and, if you can, post another quote from Shakespeare out of the book. Understand? :)

First one:

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean away from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
(Chapter 7)

Angie wrote: "Brave New World is filled with Shakespeare references. Let's try to find them all. List the quote and chapter. Then, the next person should guess which play it comes from and, if you can, post anot..."

The Scottish play! or Macbeth if you can bear to utter its name...


Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
(chapter 11)

One may smile and smile and be a villain
(Chapter 8)

It's lady macbeth from macbeth after the murder of king Duncan I guess

Karena wrote: "Angie wrote: "Brave New World is filled with Shakespeare references. Let's try to find them all. List the quote and chapter. Then, the next person should guess which play it comes from and, if you ..."

Antony and Cleopatra

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
(Chapter 12)

Angie wrote: "Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
..."

Romeo and Juliet