Annotation Guide:

2As taught byBad Tattoos

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?

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.

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Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24

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Act 5, Scene 3, Line 325

Act 3, Scene 1, Line 13

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

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Act 3, Scene 5, Line 53

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Act 1, Scene 4, Line 96

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Act 2, Scene 6, Line 10

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

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Act 1, Scene 2, Line 45

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Act 2, Scene 2, Line 33

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Act 2, Scene 5, Line 50

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Act 2, Scene 2, Line 43

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Act 1, Scene 5, Line 107❷❸

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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.

Good luck finding your own annotations