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[kengr]

I'm looking for the poem(?) that the following line is from:

Oh, what brave new world is this, that hath such people in it...?

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[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Griff and I both think it's from Hamlet, actually.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Sorry, just googled it. It's actually from The Tempest.

Should have known; it's my favorite of Shakespeare's plays. :P

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Act V, scene 1. :)

(found via Bartleby)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

MIRANDA:

"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!"

[kengr]

So Huxley was being just a bit ironic with his title. :-)

And the folks you complained about, as is too common now-a-days, just went with a phrase that sounded good, with no thought of what associations it might have (and since much of the population won't "catch" that sort of reference...)

The Tempest.

[seawasp]

Miranda, I believe; she was sheltered and had never seen "other people" before.

(I'm not absolutely sure who said it, though I'm betting on Miranda. It was Prospero I knew best; I can still do his three major monologues from memory).