# Shakespeare quotations game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-quotations-game/326219 "2005-10-14T14:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-quotations-game/326219/1 "2005-10-14T14:37:18Z")
I honor of the [Great Master’s promotion of the Bard](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=339726), 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: > [@](#): > > The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Tougher ones coming later! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-quotations-game/326219/2 "2005-10-14T15:04:33Z")
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.