I honor of the Great Master’s promotion of the Bard, I thought I’d open a thread that follows up on my comment that “people go around quoting Shakespeare all the time without realizing it.”
How about a game of well-known (or, heck, some less well-known too) phrases attributable to Shakespeare, with someone naming the source play, and character, and then following up with a quote of their own?
I’ll start out with a totally easy one:
Tougher ones coming later!
Is the game guessing where it came from? If so, Queen Gertrude on the fictional adulterous queen in HAMLET.
Another easy one
Hoisted on his own petard (and, what is it’s literal meaning and what did it mean in vulgar parlance?).
(My actual favorite Shakespearean quote is That that is is, but technically it’s not attributible to a character since the character is quoting another source.)
If one-word quotations count, I’ll nominate bodacious, since people seem to think it’s a quaint Lil Abner type of term these days.