Key quotes according to people who have had Shakespeare quotes tattooed on their flesh. A good way to get students into finding some key techniques prior to reading or performing the play in class.

1. Annotation Guide:

2. Your two tasks are:
• 1) Annotate the quotes provided via tattoos in your own copy of the
play. Using a different coloured post-it tab for these quotes. You will
need to highlight each quote with the theme you think best suits it.
• 2) Decide, if you were forced, which of these tattoos you would
choose to have tattooed on your body, where you would get it, and
why.
Firstly, Why?

3. Trust the internet!
Rather than laboriously going through
the entire play with 4 highlighters and a
pen, we are beginning with some
pointers offered by people who have
had words engraved into their skin.

4. ❶
❷
Act 5, Scene 1,
Line 24

5. ❸
❹
Act 5, Scene 3, Line 325

6. Act 3, Scene 1, Line 13
❺

7. Act 1, Scene 1,
Line 170
Feather of
lead, bright
smoke, cold
fire.
❻

8. Act 3, Scene 5, Line 53
❼

9. Act 1, Scene
4, Line 96
❽
❾

10. Act 2,
Scene 6,
Line 10
❿
⓫
⓬
⓭
⓮
⓯
⓰
⓱

11. Act 3, Scene 2, Line 26
That all the world will be in love
with night
And pay no worship to the garish
sun.
⓲

12. Act 1, Scene 2, Line 45
⓳

13. Act 2, Scene 2, Line 33
⓴

14. Act 2, Scene 5,
Line 50
❷❶

15. Act 2, Scene 2, Line 43
❷❷

16. Act 1, Scene 5, Line 107❷❸

17. ⓲
Select the tattoo that you would
choose if forced to get a tattoo from
this list
• Choose from tattoos 1-23.
• I select Tattoo 18, which reads:
• “That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
• I choose this tattoo because unlike the others
provided here, I had not noticed it before whilst
reading the text. It communicates a world where
people might value those things that are more
subtle than those that are garish, or obvious,
which would be an interesting world indeed.

18. Good luck finding your own annotations