Techniques: Textual reference, metatextuality.Techniques: Exclamation, hyperbole, imagery.The art of true illusions! Of course, it deals in traumatic situations! It conjures up demons in order to exorcise them!” #20: “It’’s theatre, Felix protests now, in his head. #19: “They’d be right there in Fletcher! The one place in the world where, with judicious timing, he might be able to wield more power than they could.” #18: “What was Felix waiting for?… A pathway towards a moment of confrontation? A moment when the balance of power would lie with him.” Techniques: Intertextuality, metatextuality.I said it was only a play, it wasn’t real.” #17: “He said it was love at first sight. Techniques: Colloquialism, textual reference, exclamation,.#16: “What do you think the girl was up to when Prospero was having his afternoon snoozes? She was hitting the books – Prospero’s books!” Techniques: Metaphor, simile, dark humour.

… draping herself over the furniture like wet spaghetti with a sign on her saying Rape Me.” #15: “You’re talking as if Miranda is just a rag doll. Techniques: Irony, textual reference, metatextuality.#14: “You’re in character already,” says Anne-Marie, grinning. #13: “Bunch of lily-white-no-touchy Ferdinands, are they?” #12: “Being a girl is the pits, trust me.” #11: “To the elements be free,” he says to her. #10: “But not so, for she’s also here, watching him as he prepares to leave the full poor cell where she’s been trapped with him.” Techniques: Intertextuality, symbolism, metaphor.There you have it: the ninth prison is the play itself.” Prospero is a prisoner inside the play he himself has created. #9: “You don’t say ‘set me free’ unless you’re not free. What’s the quote? Nature versus nurture, something like that.” #8: “Prisons are for incarceration and punishment, not for spurious attempts to educate those who cannot, by their very natures, be educated. Techniques: Rhetorical question, anaphora.

#7: “What kind of prisons are they? Who’s been put in each of them? And who’s the jailer - who’s put them in, who’s keeping them there?”

Techniques: Congery, metaphor, parataxis.

#5: “The smell of misery, lying over everyone within like an enchantment.” #4: “He refused to call them inmates, he refused to call them prisoners, not while they were in his theatre troupe.” #3: “She remains simple, she remains innocent. #1: “Quite simply, his Miranda must be released from her glass coffin she must be given a life.” Download our list of Hag-Seed quotes now!

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