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Poetic language can be complicated, especially if that language is 400 years old! However, the ideas behind those beautiful, memorable words are often quite simple, and instantly recognisable to us in the 21st century.

Drag the meanings to their corresponding Shakespeare quotes below. Then perhaps you could search for the quotes in Shakespeare’s plays and read them in context!

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Shall I kill myself?!
Keep and spend your own money only
Don't lie to yourself
Love is tough!
We are just the same as you!
It hurts when your child turns against you
People become important in different ways
Appearances can be deceiving
Names change nothing
Clever people know there is a lot still to learn. Stupid people think they know everything

"To be, or not to be, that is the question" Hamlet

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" Hamlet

"This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet

"The course of true love never did run smooth" A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" The Merchant of Venice

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" King Lear

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em” Twelfth Night

“All that glisters is not gold” The Merchant of Venice

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" As You Like It

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Poetic language can be complicated, especially if that language is 400 years old! However, the ideas behind those beautiful, memorable words are often quite simple, and instantly recognisable to us in the 21st century.

Drag the meanings to their corresponding Shakespeare quotes below. Then perhaps you could search for the quotes in Shakespeare’s plays and read them in context!

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