English Literature / Unit 7 ENL 0621 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Famous Lines and Their Plays
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The idea
Some lines name their plays at once: "All the world's a stage," As You Like It; "If music be the food of love," Twelfth Night; "Lord, what fools these mortals be," A Midsummer Night's Dream; "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," Hamlet.
In practice
The line names the play.
Where people slip
Learn the speaker too.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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