"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"

Romeo & Juliet, 1.5.51

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Scene from Our Flag Means Death, S2 E3, "The Inkeeper": Stede returns to the remains of the Revenge and finds what remains of Ed.

"No, no, no life?
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all?"

King Lear, 5.3.369-371

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Spanish Jackie (Leslie Jones) menaces Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) with a dagger under his nose in a scene from Our Flag Means Death, S1E3: "A Gentleman Pirate."

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

Macbeth (2.1.33)

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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air."

Macbeth (1.1.12-13)

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"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge?"

Merchant of Venice (3.1.66-69)

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Screenshot of Stede and Ed embracing on the beach in Our Flag Means Death, Season 2 Episode 8. Text reads 'Our Flag Means Death' Creator Confirms the Series is Officially Over. (source: https://collider.com/our-flag-means-death-cancelled/)

Small time, but in that small most greatly lived.

Henry V, 5.2

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Confrontation between Izzy Hands and Stede Bonnet on the deck of the Revenge (from Our Flag Means Death, season 1 episode 4).

"And are you grown so high in his esteem, because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low, but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes!"

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3,2,304

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A still from S1E7 of Our Flag Means Death shows a fly impaled upon a wooden wall by a thrown knife.

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport."
--King Lear (4.1.36-37).
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Louis Bonnet holds his fork and knife in the most bitchy manner possible as he reads his father for filth.

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"What, you egg? Young fry of treachery!" -Macbeth, 4.2