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Which character in "Shakespeare in Love" said...

So you think you are a fan of "Shakespeare in Love." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. [to Will] Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words?

  2. [protesting outside The Rose] Licentiousness is made a show! Vanity and pride are likewise made a show! This is the very business of show!

  3. You see - comedy. Love, and a bit with a dog. That's what they want.

  4. I'm a dead man and buggered to boot!

  5. I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.

  6. [last lines] My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... the wild waters roar and heave... the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name... Viola.

  7. The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours.

  8. A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature.

  9. [singing the stage directions] Gentlemen upstage; ladies downstage... Are you a lady Mr. Kent?

  10. Pay attention and you will see how genius creates a legend.

  11. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

  12. [reacting to another actor during rehearsal] Are you going to do it like that?