The role of women

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d, / And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars... Cry ‘Courage! To the field’”

Kate

Act 2 Scene 3

“In faith, I’ll break thy little finger, Harry, / An if thou wilt not tell me all things true

Kate

Act 2 Scene 3

“I love thee not / I care not for thee, Kate... We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns”

Hotspur

Act 2 Scene 3

“Do you not love me? Do you not, indeed? / Well, do not, then; for since you love me not, / I will not love myself”

Kate

Act 2 Scene 3

“When I am o’horseback, I will swear / I love thee infinitely

Hotspur

Act 2 Scene 3

“I know you wise, but yet no farther wise / Than Harry Percy’s wife; constant you are, / But yet a woman”

Act 2 Scene 3

“My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh”

Mortimer

Act 3 Scene 1

“My daughter weeps: she’ll not part with you; / She’ll be a soldier too, she’ll to the wars”

Glendower

Act 3 Scene 1

“I understand thy looks... / I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, / And that’s a feeling disputation”

Mortimer

Act 3 Scene 1

“Come Kate, thou art perfect in lying down”

Hotspur

Act 3 Scene 1

“There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy’s wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go”

Falstaff

Act 3 Scene 3

“I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou shouldst know it; I am an honest man’s wife; and setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call me so”

Mistress Quickly

Act 3 Scene 3