Jeopardy Shakespeare Flashcards

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–400–This character described himself as having “more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty”

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Falstaff

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–800–000-line poem about this title Homeric pair”

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Troilus and Criseyde

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–2000–After being a 16th C. version of “The Terminator”, the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will’s 1st tragedy

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Titus Andronicus

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–1600–In this comedy featuring a “fantastical Spaniard”, 4 guys take a 3-year vow of celibacy & wackiness ensues

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–2000–The last of the tragedies, this play deals with the conflict between Rome’s patrician & plebeian classes

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Coriolanus

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SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–400–Her lover called her “My Serpent of Old Nile”

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Cleopatra

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SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–800–Goneril is the eldest of his 3 daughters

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Lear

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SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1200–The king of Scotland was Macbeth’s cousin

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Duncan

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SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1600–For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester

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Richard III

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SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–2000–About this queen, Hamlet says, “Frailty, thy name is woman”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Queen) Gertrude

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SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–400–Jealous Moor’s stringed instruments

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Othello’s cellos

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SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–800–Regan’s father’s lachrymal discharges

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Lear’s tears

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SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1200–Robin Goodfellow’s formal attire

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Puck’s tux

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SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1600–Calpurnia’s husband’s small metal hair pluckers

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Caesar’s tweezers

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SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–2000–It’s the Afghani Islamic fundamentalist regime that Prospero’s slave would lead

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the Caliban Taliban (Caliban’s Talibans accepted)

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SHAKESPEARE–400–King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter

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Cordelia

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SHAKESPEARE–800–Miranda’s father, he ends “The Tempest” with an epilogue

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Prospero

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SHAKESPEARE–1200–“Romeo and Juliet” begins, “Two households, both alike in” this

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dignity

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SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–400–Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

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Falstaff

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SHAKESPEARE–3000–Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria

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Antony and Cleopatra

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SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–800–During his brief time on stage, Curtis, this man’s aged servant, does get to say “Shrew”

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Petruchio

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SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–1200–Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don’t have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines

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Hamlet

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SHAKESPEARE–2000–Comedy in which Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–1600–In this fairy tale, Snug doesn’t get the lion’s share of lines, but he does get the lion’s lines

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–2000–In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king

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Henry VIII

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–200–“Tis’ a wonder, by your leave she will be tamed so”

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The Taming of the Shrew

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–400–“Give me your hands if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–600–“Sir John, to Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, for he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford”

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–800–“And then to Rome–Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity”

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Antony and Cleopatra

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–1000–“We came into the world like brother and brother, and now let’s go hand-in-hand, not one before another”

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A Comedy of Errors

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“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–In “The Tempest” he’s invisible to everyone but Prospero

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Ariel

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“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–800–The main plot of this comedy comes from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”; its title ensures a happy ending

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All’s Well That Ends Well

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“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is set in this Mediterranean City that’s in the title of another Shakespeare play

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Athens

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“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–Romeo buys poison with which to kill himself from a minor character with this job title

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apothecary

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“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–An Italian businessman with this first name is “The Merchant of Venice”

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Antonio

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IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–400–Brutus! You led the assassins that kill me in Act III! That’s not even halfway through my own play! That ain’t right!

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Julius) Caesar

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IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–800–Tybalt! You took out my pal Mercutio & now I’m comin’ after you! I’ll show you what a title guy can do!

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Romeo

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IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–1200–Antonio! I lend you a few bucks & you end up making me change my religion?! I’ll see you at “Veniceslam!”

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Shylock

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IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–1600–Richmond! You! Me! Bosworth Field! My kingdom for a horse? Ho ‘bout a folding chair for the back of your head?!

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Richard III

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IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–2000–Cassio! Iago said you’ve been messing around with my wife! You know how crazy that makes me!

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Othello

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SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–200–Chorus: “Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene”

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Romeo

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SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–400–The Duke of Gloucester: “Now is the winter of our discontent”

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Richard III

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SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–600–Theseus: “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–500–Flavius: “Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home”

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Julius Caesar

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SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–1000–The Earl of Kent: “I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”

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King Lear

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–This king’s corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of “Henry VI, Part I”

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Henry V

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who’s a simple constable in “Measure For Measure”

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Elbow

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–In a famous speech, this woman describes mercy as “An attribute to God himself”

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Portia

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–800–Title character who says, “When I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute”

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Pericles

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Cassandra, a prophetess whose father is the king of Troy, is a character in this play

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‘Troilus and Cressida’

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SHAKESPEAREAN ROYALTY–0– the corpse of Henry VI appear in the play named for him

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Richard III

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SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–200–This fairy king’s first line is “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

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Oberon

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SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–400–Famous “tamer” who enters saying, “Verona for a while I take my leave”

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Petruchio

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SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–600–Warrior who says, “Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again; why should I war without the walls of Troy….”

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Troilus

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SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–800–His first line consists of just one word, “Calphurnia!”

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Julius Caesar

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SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–1000–King of Denmark who begins, “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green…”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (King) Claudius

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SHAKESPEARE–200–Canada’s best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare

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Stratford, Ontario

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SHAKESPEARE–400–The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field

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Richard III

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SHAKESPEARE–900–Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other

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Duncan

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SHAKESPEARE–800–Rejected lover whose last words are “If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”

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Paris

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SHAKESPEARE–1000–The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set

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‘Othello’

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SHAKESPEARE–200–Hamlet found “something rotten” in this country

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Denmark

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SHAKESPEARE–400–The Moor who loved Desdemona “not wisely, but too well”

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Othello

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SHAKESPEARE–600–Battle of the sexes on which musical “Kiss Me Kate” was based

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The Taming of the Shrew

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SHAKESPEARE–800–Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one

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Falstaff

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SHAKESPEARE–1000–She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her

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Anne Hathaway

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WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–400–The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery

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a hearse

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WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–800–A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge

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a sphere

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WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–A Mexican poncho without the hole

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a serape

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WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–To delete recorded data

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erase

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WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–Basking or bonnethead

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a shark

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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–200–Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city

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London

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–200–It’s the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn’s opera “Le Marchand de Venise”

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The Merchant of Venice

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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–400–In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of “This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

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Macbeth

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–400–The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers

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Romeo

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–600–You’ll need some long-winded singers to star in “Stormen”, a Swedish opera based on this play

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The Tempest

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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–600–“Diana”, a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo

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‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–800–Verdi wrote an aria called “La Luce Langue”–The Light Fails–for this bloothirsty villainess

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Lady Macbeth

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–500–Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet

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Othello

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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–800–It’s believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this “Utopia” author

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St. Thomas More

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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–Shakespeare’s theatrical company became known as The King’s Men in honor of this king’s patronage

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James I

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SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–200–Characters from this play circling Uranus are Ariel & Miranda

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The Tempest

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SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–400–Goneril & Regan’s sister orbiting Uranus

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Cordelia

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SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–600–Othello called her his “Fair Warrior”

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Desdemona

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SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–800–When found by a watchman, she was “Bleeding, warm and newly dead”; now she’s found around Uranus

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Juliet

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SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–1000–Moons III & IV are this royal fairy pair from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Titania

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SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–400–“Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell”, said Othello of this character; he later took it back

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Desdemona

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SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–800–“All that is within him does condemn itself for being there”, said Menteith of the title character in this tragedy

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Macbeth

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SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–1200–In this comedy Jaques says to Orlando in the Forest of Arden, “Let’s meet as little as we can”

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As You Like It

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SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–1600–Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, “The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”

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Troilus and Cressida

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SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–2000–The shepherd says “His garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely” of Autolychus in this romance

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The Winter’s Tale

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SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–400–Surname of Romeo’s fatherINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)

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Montague

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SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–800–“Midsummer” fairy with an insect nameINSERT INTO clue VALUES (4)

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Moth

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SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–1200–Prospero is the deposed Duke of itINSERT INTO clue VALUES (5)

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Milan

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SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–200–The humans in this play inspire Puck to say, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–3000–The last proper name spoken by MacbethINSERT INTO clue VALUES (7)

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Macduff

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Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–400–Though this historical play contains a clown, it’s the heroine who makes an asp of herself

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Antony and Cleopatra

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SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–600–Trinculo is a jester in this “stormy” drama

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The Tempest

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SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–2000–Feminine form of address for character QuicklyINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)

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Mistress

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SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–800–Dogberry & Verges are 2 foolish officers in this comedy whose title may mean “nada” to you

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Much Ado About Nothing

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101
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SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–1600–Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine in this comedy set in Romeo’s town

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

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102
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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–200–“As the sea, my love is deep.”“Ditto!”[Smooch]”You shall be with him hence!”“Ditto!”“No–ooh! Ugh!”“Yaah!”“I die!”“Ditto!”[Kkk!]

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Romeo and Juliet

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103
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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–400–“Boo-oo!”“Bl-bl-bl-bl! Mad! Ow!”“Poison!”“Mother! Treachery!”“Agh-hh-hh-hh!”“Ugh!”

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Hamlet

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104
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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–600–“How I do thrive in this lady’s love, and she in mine!”“Ps-ps-ps-ps!”“Thou dost stone my heart!”“Mmgh-mm-mm!”“Ps-ps-ps-ps!”“D’oh! ‘Tis happiness to die. Oo-algh!”

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Othello

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105
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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–800–“The king never shall sun that morrow see.”“Nay!”[smack!]”Aye!”“The smell of blood! Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!”“I will not yield, to kiss the ground! Nyuh-uh-uh.”“Tragic.”

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Macbeth

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106
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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–1000–“I will fight at sea!”“I’ll help you!”“Huh? Oh, kill me.”“Augh.”“Aah! I can no more! Ow!”“I have immortal longings! Ow. Ow! Aughh.”

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Antony and Cleopatra

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107
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“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides”, warns this woman in Act I of “King Lear”

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Cordelia

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108
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“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–800–He calls Gertude “Our sometime sister, now our Queen”

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Claudius

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109
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“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–In “Troilus and Cressida”, King Priam says that this daughter of his “doth foresee” (yes, but does anyone listen?)

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Cassandra

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110
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“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–A rather confused Macbeth says, “The Thane of” this place “lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

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Cawdor

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111
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“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–In “Richard III”, Richard’s brother George is the doomed duke of this

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Clarence

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112
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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–In Act 1, Scene 1 of “Macbeth” this trio vanishes in “the fog and filthy air”

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the three witches

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113
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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Soon after Hamlet finishes his “Alas, poor Yorick!” speech he sees this woman’s funeral procession

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Ophelia

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114
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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–600–She says, “that death’s unnatural that kills for loving” before Othello strangles her

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Desdemona

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115
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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–2000–“I am a very foolish fond old man”, he tells his daughter Cordelia

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King Lear

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116
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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy

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Merchant of Venice

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117
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SHAKESPEARE–200–“Come on, and kiss me, Kate” is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical “Kiss Me, Kate”

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The Taming of the Shrew

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118
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SHAKESPEARE–400–“Henry VI, Part I” features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle

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Joan of Arc

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119
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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120
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SHAKESPEARE–800–Julius Caesar observes that this man “has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”

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Cassius

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121
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Title character who says, “Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli”

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Coriolanus

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122
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SHAKESPEARE–200–Shakespeare’s only comedy with “comedy” in the title

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Comedy of Errors

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123
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SHAKESPEARE–400–In it, Puck comments: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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124
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SHAKESPEARE–600–What Shylock demanded instead of interest

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a pound of flesh

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125
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SHAKESPEARE–800–Completes the line “If music be the food of love…”

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play on

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126
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end

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Horatio

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127
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SHAKESPEARE–200–Brutus tells him, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise”

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Marc Antony

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128
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SHAKESPEARE–400–This “Merchant of Venice” heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony’s nephew

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Portia

129
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, “Know that we have divided in three our kingdom”

A

‘King Lear’

130
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SHAKESPEARE–800–At the end of “Hamlet”, this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne

A

Fortinbras

131
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it

A

Tyre

132
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SHAKESPEARE–0– his death is reported in “King Henry V”

A

Sir John Falstaff

133
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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–400–Polonius uses the word “outbreak” about Laertes’ fiery mind, not this title character

A

Hamlet

134
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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–800–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from horseback.) Shakespeare used this word in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” to catch someone’s notice; I use it to stop my horse

A

whoa (ho also accepted)

135
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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–1200–From Latin for “indecent”, this word in “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is the type of book banned by the Comstock Law

A

obscene

136
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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–1600–This word in “Henry VI Part 2” meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite

A

jaded

137
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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–1800–The word “fashionable” came into vogue with Ulysses’ speech to Achilles in this play

A

Troilus and Cressida

138
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SHAKESPEARE–200–1 of 3 women named in titles of Shakesperean plays

A

Cleopatra, Cressida

139
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SHAKESPEARE–400–In “Othello”, Shakespeare describes jealousy as a “monster” with this facial feature

A

Green Eyes

140
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar” & the lady lawyer in “The Merchant of Venice” shared this name

A

Portia

141
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SHAKESPEARE–800–These 2 title characters were named Valentine & Proteus

A

‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’

142
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Title character who’s Benvolio’s buddy

A

Romeo

143
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SHAKESPEARE–200–Near the end of this tragedy, Lodovico tells Gratiano to “seize upon the fortunes of the Moor”

A

‘Othello’

144
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SHAKESPEARE–400–In this play’s first scene, Bernardo says, “Tis’ now struck twelve and a ghost appears soon after”

A

‘Hamlet’

145
Q

SHAKESPEARE–600–Prospero’s first line in this play is “Be collected - no more amazement”

A

‘The Tempest’

146
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–When Benedict says “Come, bid me do anything for thee”, she says “Much ado - kill Claudio”

A

Beatrice

147
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–He’s the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in “A Midsummer Nights’ Dream”

A

Oberon

148
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SHAKESPEARE–200–Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him

A

Julius Caesar

149
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SHAKESPEARE–400–Her dying words are “O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?”

A

Cleopatra

150
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SHAKESPEARE–600–He tells his daughter Cordelia “I fear I am not in my perfect mind”

A

King Lear

151
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SHAKESPEARE–800–The 2 titled ladies in the cast of “Macbeth” are Lady Macbeth & her

A

Lady Macduff

152
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons

A

Hippolyta

153
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SHAKESPEARE–200–Near the end of this play, Theseus says, “Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time”

A

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

154
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SHAKESPEARE–400–This historical play includes the death of Katharine of Aragon

A

‘Henry VIII’

155
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SHAKESPEARE–600–Cordelia’s 1st words in this play are “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”

A

‘King Lear’

156
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SHAKESPEARE–800–Othello kills himself on this island

A

Cyprus

157
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–Ophelia says “pansies” are “for thoughts”, this is “for remembrance”

A

Rosemary

158
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–400–Every graduate should know he speaks of the “pomp and circumstance” of war to Iago

A

Othello

159
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SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–900–In “Henry IV, Part II”, a hostess complains that this knight has “eaten me out of house and home”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sir John) Falstaff

160
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–1200–Trinculo & Caliban makde “strange bedfellows” in this romance

A

The Tempest

161
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–1600–Antonio claims he saved Sebastian from “the jaws of death” in this holiday-based comedy

A

Twelfth Night

162
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SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–2000–In this comedy Duke Senior laments to Orlando that they have “seen better days”

A

As You Like It

163
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SHAKESPEARE–200–In “Macbeth” Hecate commands this trio, “And now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring”

A

Three Witches/Weird Sisters

164
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SHAKESPEARE–400–Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus And Adonis” is based in part on this poet’s “Metamorphoses”

A

Ovid

165
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SHAKESPEARE–600–Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson played Benedick & Beatrice in the 1993 film version of this comedy

A

‘Much Ado About Nothing’

166
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SHAKESPEARE–2000–This play’s last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia’s house in Belmont

A

‘The Merchant of Venice’

167
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Many scholars describe this play about a prince of Tyre as a “romance”

A

‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’

168
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–200–He said, “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him…but, as he was ambitious, I slew him”

A

Brutus

169
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–400–Hamlet says of him, “Here hung these lips that I have kissed I know not how oft”

A

Yorick

170
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SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–600–“Twelfth Night” opens with the line “If music be the food of love,” do this

A

Play On

171
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SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–2000–He asked, “Is this a dagger which I see before me?… or art thou but a dagger of the mind”

A

Macbeth

172
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SHAKESPEARE–0–Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen

A

Cleopatra

173
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SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS–0–He is introduced as “The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool”

A

Marc Antony

174
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SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–400–In Act I her nurse & mother discuss her upcoming 14th birthday

A

Juliet

175
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SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–800–She says of her husband, “His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love” (She was right)

A

Desdemona

176
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–1200–The Duke of Albany & the Duke of Cornwall are the husbands of these 2 sisters

A

Goneril

177
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SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–1600–Hurry up & name this character who makes bawdy puns during a Latin lesson in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

A

Mistress Quickly

178
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–2000–She’s the younger sister in “The Taming of the Shrew”

A

Bianca

179
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SHAKESPEARE–200–The character who orders the death of Lady Macduff & her children

A

Macbeth

180
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SHAKESPEARE–400–This title character’s ghost appears to Brutus, who calls it a “monstrous apparition”

A

Julius Caesar

181
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SHAKESPEARE–600–Near the end of this play, the king’s mount is slain & he has to fight on foot

A

‘Richard III’

182
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SHAKESPEARE–800–This goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in Act 5 of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”

A

Diana

183
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–When Viola disguises herself as a boy in this comedy, Olivia falls in love with her

A

‘Twelfth Night’

184
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–Lavinia has her tongue cut out & Tamora is served her own sons baked in a pie in this far-from-tasteful tragedy

A

Titus Andronicus

185
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SHAKESPEARE–6400–He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway

A

Richard III

186
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1200–Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word

A

Measure for Measure

187
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SHAKESPEARE–1600–In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”

A

Lay on, Macduff

188
Q

SHAKESPEARE–2000–Guiderius & Arviragus, who pretend to be Polydore & Cadwal, are sons of this title king of Britain

A

Cymbeline

189
Q

DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–200–So your uncle killed Dad & married Mom; I say stop brooding, get off your duff & kill your uncle!

A

Hamlet

190
Q

DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–400–You say you value your wife’s love above “the sea’s worth”, but you gotta jack it up & see what she needs: it’s trust!

A

Othello

191
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DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–600–After being your own severed hand on a platter, I think killing Tamora & her sons was a cry for help, General

A

Titus Andronicus

192
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius’ house

A

Hamlet

193
Q

DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–800–Regan & Goneril got your inheritance, but you married the King of France; get over your daddy issues!

A

Cordelia

194
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SHAKESPEARE–400–These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls

A

the Montagues

195
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SHAKESPEARE–600–Name shared by the heroine of “The Merchant of Venice” & Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar”

A

Portia

196
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DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–1000–You’re obese, gluttonous, lecherous, & you stabbed Hotspur’s corpse; you either get it or you don’t, & you don’t

A

Falstaff

197
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SHAKESPEARE–1500–Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending

A

All’s Well That Ends Well

198
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SHAKESPEARE–1000–Play containing the line “There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax”

A

Troilus

199
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I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–200–Arranging a lovers’ meeting in a crypt is a really bad idea–just look at Act V, Scene 3 of this play

A

Romeo and Juliet

200
Q

I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–400–Never promise anybody a pound of this; Antonio did, & Shylock tried to collect it (ouch!)

A

flesh

201
Q

I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–600–Never trust a woman whose words are too flattering–like Goneril in this play

A

King Lear

202
Q

I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–800–Losing a hanky might lead to some deadly hanky-panky–I learned it from this play

A

Othello

203
Q

I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–2500–Heed this “Hamlet” character’s advice that “the apparel oft proclaims the man”

A

Polonius

204
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–Balthasar, his servant, accompanies him to the Capulet vault & remains nearby though ordered to leave

A

Romeo

205
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver

A

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

206
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SHAKESPEARE–600–Iago suspects, or pretends to suspect, his wife Emilia of having an affair with this man

A

Othello

207
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–In Act 5, Scene 3 of this play, the ghosts of the young princes appear to the title character

A

Richard III

208
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius

A

Rosencrantz

209
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I’s interest in witchcraft

A

‘Macbeth’

210
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–This jester makes an appearance in the last act of “Hamlet” when a gravedigger uncovers his skull

A

Yorick

211
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SHAKESPEARE–600–His youngest daughter, Cordelia, shares his stubbornness & refuses to flatter him like her sisters

A

King Lear

212
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–“As You Like It” is set in part in this forest

A

Forest of Arden

213
Q

SHAKESPEARE–2700–Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt

A

‘Henry V’

214
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SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–200–He probably studied the classics, but Ben Jonson implied he had “small Latin and less” this language

A

Greek

215
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–400–Peter Brook’s unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes

A

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

216
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–600–In “The Merchant of Venice”, his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio’s friend Lorenzo

A

Shylock

217
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–Laertes’ last line in this play is “Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!”

A

‘Hamlet’

218
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–“Umabatha”, a Zulu production of this “bewitching” tragedy, appeared in London in 1972

A

‘Macbeth’

219
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–One Katherine & one Anne are the only wives who appear in the play named for him

A

Henry VIII

220
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–Holding this dead daughter in his arms, King Lear says, “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low”

A

Cordelia

221
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1200–These 2 courtiers were hired by King Claudius to spy on Hamlet

A

Rosencrantz

222
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1600–In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this Amazon declares, “I was with Hercules and Cadmus once”

A

Hippolyta

223
Q

SHAKESPEARE–2000–Saturninus opens this play saying, “Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms”

A

Titus Andronicus

224
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–200–At 15 she won a Golden Globe for “My So-Called Life”; at 16 she played Leonardo DiCaprio’s Juliet

A

Claire Danes

225
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–400–He starred in “Coriolanus” in 1979; a few years later he was “Driving Miss Daisy”

A

Morgan Freeman

226
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–600–In 1995 he played Iago to Laurence Fishburne’s Othello; in 1996 he starred in his own film of “Hamlet”

A

Kenneth Branagh

227
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–800–He not only starred in but also directed “Looking For Richard”, a film about “Richard III”

A

Al Pacino

228
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–1000–Helena Bonham Carter played Olivia in the 1996 film of this comedy subtitled “Or, What You Will”

A

‘Twelfth Night’

229
Q

SHAKESPEAREANA–0–A knight in “Henry VI, Part I” who flees battle to save his life is an early version of this great character

A

Sir John Falstaff

230
Q

SHAKESPEARE–0– ends with the same 7-letter word

A

Measure for Measure

231
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–200–“Two households, both alike in dignity…”

A

Romeo and Juliet

232
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–400–“When shall we three meet again”

A

Macbeth

233
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–600–“Boatswain!”

A

The Tempest

234
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–800–“O for a muse of fire…”

A

Henry V

235
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–1000–“I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night in Messina.”

A

Much Ado About Nothing

236
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–Varro, Clitus, Claudius, Strato, Lucius & Dardanius are all servants to Brutus in this play

A

Julius Caesar

237
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar in this tragedy about a mad king

A

King Lear

238
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–600–In “Othello”, Brabantio tells him, “Thou art a villain”; he retorts, “You are – a senator”

A

Iago

239
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–800–She tells Oberon, “I know when thou hast stolen away from fairyland…versing love to amorous Phillida”

A

Titania

240
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–In “Henry VIII”, this cardinal’s first line is “The Duke of Buckingham’s surveyor? Ha!”

A

Cardinal Wolsey

241
Q

SHAKESPEARE–100–The full title of the play includes his title, “Prince of Denmark”

A

Hamlet

242
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–In “The Taming of the Shrew”, this character actually says “Kiss me, Kate”

A

Petruchio

243
Q

SHAKESPEARE–300–This character answers to “Gloucester”, because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king

A

Richard III

244
Q

SHAKESPEARE–700–Cleopatra speaks of these days, “when I was green in judgment”

A

her salad days

245
Q

SHAKESPEARE–500–This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs

A

King Lear

246
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–200–“Legend of Zorro” star Banderas

A

Antonio

247
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–400–Current heartthrob actor Bloom

A

Orlando

248
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–600–Late “Can-Can” dancer Prowse

A

Juliet

249
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–800–Mahogany master Phyfe

A

Duncan

250
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–1000–Beauty queen Madame Rubinstein seen here

A

Helena

251
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–200–Friar Lawrence urges her to join “a sisterhood of holy nuns” but she ignores him & kills herself

A

Juliet

252
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–400–This comedy ends in Lucentio’s house, not in Petruchio’s

A

The Taming of the Shrew

253
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–600–The last scene of this tragedy takes place in a pavillion in Titus’ garden in Rome

A

Titus Andronicus

254
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–800–This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana

A

Pericles

255
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–3100–Shortly before he dies this king laments, “And my poor fool is hang’d!”

A

King Lear

256
Q

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–200–“Not that I loved Caesar less”, says Brutus, “but that I loved” this city “more”

A

Rome

257
Q

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–400–Jessica states that “love is blind” as she elopes (with dad Shylock’s ducats) in this comedy

A

The Merchant of Venice

258
Q

SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–200–Scholars have long sought the identity of the “Dark Lady” who tortures Shakespeare in these poems

A

Sonnets

259
Q

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–600–He declares his love to Ophelia in a letter saying, “Doubt Truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love”

A

Hamlet

260
Q

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–800–She says, “My only love sprung from my only hate!”

A

Juliet

261
Q

SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–400–They’re the main rivers of the 2 cities where Shakespeare spent most of his life

A

Avon

262
Q

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–1000–Will’s only play with “love” in the title

A

Love’s Labour’s Lost

263
Q

SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–600–Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna was born 6 months after his marriage to this woman

A

Anne Hathaway

264
Q

SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–800–Will helped his father obtain one of these, with the motto “Non Sanz Droict”, “Not Without Right”

A

Coat of arms

265
Q

SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–1000–Perhaps written by Shakespeare himself, it ends, “Curst be he that moves my bones”

A

Epitaph

266
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–0–One of this heroine’s last lines is “Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch”

A

Cleopatra

267
Q

SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–0–This heroine is murdered on the island of Cyprus, as is her waiting-woman

A

Desdemona (from “Othello”)

268
Q

SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–100–This comedy opens on a Venetian street

A

‘The Merchant of Venice’

269
Q

SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–200–This play’s last line is “ ‘Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so”

A

‘Taming of the Shrew’

270
Q

SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–300–“All the World’s a Stage” is from “As You Like It”, the first comedy Shakespeare wrote for this theater

A

Globe Theater

271
Q

SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–400–This play ends less one Moor as he dies “upon a kiss”

A

‘Othello’

272
Q

SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–500–After this ruler’s death, Cinna cries, “Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!”

A

‘Julius Caesar’

273
Q

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–200–“One Severe Storm”

A

The Tempest

274
Q

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–400–“Small Village”

A

Hamlet

275
Q

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–600–“Lots o’ Bustle Concerning Zilch”

A

Much Ado About Nothing

276
Q

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–800–“A Subjugation for One Small Burrowing Mammal”

A

The Taming of the Shrew

277
Q

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–1000–“Rialto Retailer”

A

The Merchant of Venice

278
Q

SHAKESPEARE–100–He goes to the Capulets’ party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves – for now

A

Romeo

279
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers

A

Fairies

280
Q

SHAKESPEARE–300–Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes

A

Richard III

281
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is “Scone”

A

‘Macbeth’

282
Q

SHAKESPEARE–500–He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar’s murder

A

Brutus

283
Q

ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–200–Sir Toby’s last name in “Twelfth Night”, or what you shouldn’t do at the dinner table

A

Belch

284
Q

ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–400–Be “Lear”y of her – she poisoned her sister Regan

A

Goneril

285
Q

ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–600–“Much Ado About Nothing” features a comical constable with this “canine fruit” name

A

Dogberry

286
Q

ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–800–Of Lord Poop of Pelham, Lord Scroop of Masham, or Lord Surly of Sneer, the one in “Henry V”

A

Lord Scroop of Masham

287
Q

ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–1000–An officer with the silly name of Silius shows up in the play named for these historic lovers

A

‘Antony

288
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–200–Any sap knows it was the instrument of Cleopatra’s demise

A

Asp (for ‘sap’)

289
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–400–A big “Hello To” lovers of this tragedy

A

‘Othello’ (for ‘Hello To’)

290
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–600–Ah, the “sad cries” heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!

A

Cressida (for ‘sad cries’)

291
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–800–An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear

A

Regan (for ‘range’)

292
Q

SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–1000–He had a “real set” of gripes with Hamlet, especially after Hamlet killed his dad

A

Laertes (for ‘real set’)

293
Q

SHAKESPEARE–0–Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play “Julius Caesar”

A

“Et tu, Brute?”

294
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river

A

Stratford-on-Avon

295
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–“The Winter’s Tale” has the memorable stage direction “Exit pursued by” this ursine beast

A

a bear

296
Q

SHAKESPEARE–600–Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said “So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece”, it “is most certainly an artistic failure”

A

Hamlet

297
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–The line “All the world’s a stage” may have been a reference to this theatre, home to Shakespeare’s acting co. in 1599

A

the Globe Theatre

298
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–One of Shakespeare’s sisters had this name, the same as Will’s wife

A

Anne

299
Q

SHAKESPEARE–200–Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck

A

The Tempest

300
Q

SHAKESPEARE–400–“Umabatha”, a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa

A

Macbeth

301
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1500–Richmond exults, “The bloody dog is dead” after killing this king at Bosworth Field

A

Richard III

302
Q

SHAKESPEARE–800–In Act V of “Pericles”, this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision

A

Diana

303
Q

NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–100–“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

A

Julius Caesar

304
Q

SHAKESPEARE–1000–In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called “A Termagant’s Domestication”

A

The Taming of the Shrew

305
Q

NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–200–“Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow”

A

Romeo and Juliet

306
Q

NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–300–“Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog”

A

Macbeth

307
Q

NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–400–“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”

A

Hamlet

308
Q

NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–600–“The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath”

A

The Merchant of Venice

309
Q

WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–200–In this play the question is, who’s going to die–the King, the Queen, Ophelia & the title guy do

A

Hamlet

310
Q

WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–400–An anaconda squeezing her to death in Act V wouldn’t work, so will used an asp instead

A

Cleopatra

311
Q

WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–600–Will had this title man do the dirty work in Act V, smothering his wife for her supposed infidelity

A

Othello

312
Q

WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–800–Banquo & his kid Fleance were ticking Will off, so he penned this play & tried to knock ‘em off; only got Dad

A

Macbeth

313
Q

WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–1000–Will thought he’d keep this pal of Romeo alive, but the “plague o’ both your houses” speech really worked

A

Mercutio

314
Q

FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–400–“The Winter’s…”

A

Tale

315
Q

FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–800–“The Tragedy of Hamlet…”

A

Prince of Denmark

316
Q

FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–1200–“Pericles…”

A

Prince of Tyre

317
Q

FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–1600–“Twelfth Night, or…”

A

What You Will

318
Q

FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–2000–“The Third Part of King…”

A

Henry VI