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
25
SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS--2000--In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king
Henry VIII
26
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES--200--"Tis' a wonder, by your leave she will be tamed so"
The Taming of the Shrew
27
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES--400--"Give me your hands if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
28
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES--600--"Sir John, to Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, for he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford"
The Merry Wives of Windsor
29
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES--800--"And then to Rome--Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity"
Antony and Cleopatra
30
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"
A Comedy of Errors
31
"A" IN SHAKESPEARE--400--In "The Tempest" he's invisible to everyone but Prospero
Ariel
32
"A" IN SHAKESPEARE--800--The main plot of this comedy comes from Boccaccio's "Decameron"; its title ensures a happy ending
All's Well That Ends Well
33
"A" IN SHAKESPEARE--2000--"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is set in this Mediterranean City that's in the title of another Shakespeare play
Athens
34
"A" IN SHAKESPEARE--1600--Romeo buys poison with which to kill himself from a minor character with this job title
apothecary
35
"A" IN SHAKESPEARE--2000--An Italian businessman with this first name is "The Merchant of Venice"
Antonio
36
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!
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Julius) Caesar
37
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!
Romeo
38
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!"
Shylock
39
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?!
Richard III
40
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!
Othello
41
SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES--200--Chorus: "Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene"
Romeo
42
SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES--400--The Duke of Gloucester: "Now is the winter of our discontent"
Richard III
43
SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES--600--Theseus: "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
44
SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES--500--Flavius: "Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home"
Julius Caesar
45
SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES--1000--The Earl of Kent: "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall"
King Lear
46
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--200--This king's corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of "Henry VI, Part I"
Henry V
47
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--400--Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who's a simple constable in "Measure For Measure"
Elbow
48
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--1000--In a famous speech, this woman describes mercy as "An attribute to God himself"
Portia
49
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--800--Title character who says, "When I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute"
Pericles
50
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--1000--Cassandra, a prophetess whose father is the king of Troy, is a character in this play
'Troilus and Cressida'
51
SHAKESPEAREAN ROYALTY--0-- the corpse of Henry VI appear in the play named for him
Richard III
52
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES--200--This fairy king's first line is "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"
Oberon
53
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES--400--Famous "tamer" who enters saying, "Verona for a while I take my leave"
Petruchio
54
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES--600--Warrior who says, "Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again; why should I war without the walls of Troy...."
Troilus
55
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES--800--His first line consists of just one word, "Calphurnia!"
Julius Caesar
56
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES--1000--King of Denmark who begins, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green..."
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (King) Claudius
57
SHAKESPEARE--200--Canada's best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare
Stratford, Ontario
58
SHAKESPEARE--400--The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field
Richard III
59
SHAKESPEARE--900--Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other
Duncan
60
SHAKESPEARE--800--Rejected lover whose last words are "If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet"
Paris
61
SHAKESPEARE--1000--The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set
'Othello'
62
SHAKESPEARE--200--Hamlet found "something rotten" in this country
Denmark
63
SHAKESPEARE--400--The Moor who loved Desdemona "not wisely, but too well"
Othello
64
SHAKESPEARE--600--Battle of the sexes on which musical "Kiss Me Kate" was based
The Taming of the Shrew
65
SHAKESPEARE--800--Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one
Falstaff
66
SHAKESPEARE--1000--She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her
Anne Hathaway
67
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE--400--The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery
a hearse
68
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE--800--A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge
a sphere
69
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE--1200--A Mexican poncho without the hole
a serape
70
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE--1600--To delete recorded data
erase
71
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE--2000--Basking or bonnethead
a shark
72
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--200--Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city
London
73
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS--200--It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise"
The Merchant of Venice
74
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--400--In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"
Macbeth
75
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS--400--The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers
Romeo
76
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS--600--You'll need some long-winded singers to star in "Stormen", a Swedish opera based on this play
The Tempest
77
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--600--"Diana", a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo
'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
78
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS--800--Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess
Lady Macbeth
79
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS--500--Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet
Othello
80
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--800--It's believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this "Utopia" author
St. Thomas More
81
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--1000--Shakespeare's theatrical company became known as The King's Men in honor of this king's patronage
James I
82
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS--200--Characters from this play circling Uranus are Ariel & Miranda
The Tempest
83
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS--400--Goneril & Regan's sister orbiting Uranus
Cordelia
84
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS--600--Othello called her his "Fair Warrior"
Desdemona
85
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS--800--When found by a watchman, she was "Bleeding, warm and newly dead"; now she's found around Uranus
Juliet
86
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS--1000--Moons III & IV are this royal fairy pair from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Titania
87
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS--400--"Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell", said Othello of this character; he later took it back
Desdemona
88
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS--800--"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there", said Menteith of the title character in this tragedy
Macbeth
89
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS--1200--In this comedy Jaques says to Orlando in the Forest of Arden, "Let's meet as little as we can"
As You Like It
90
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS--1600--Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, "The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!"
Troilus and Cressida
91
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS--2000--The shepherd says "His garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely" of Autolychus in this romance
The Winter's Tale
92
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES "M"--400--Surname of Romeo's fatherINSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (8)
Montague
93
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES "M"--800--"Midsummer" fairy with an insect nameINSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (4)
Moth
94
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES "M"--1200--Prospero is the deposed Duke of itINSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (5)
Milan
95
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS--200--The humans in this play inspire Puck to say, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
96
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES "M"--3000--The last proper name spoken by MacbethINSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (7)
Macduff
97
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS--400--Though this historical play contains a clown, it's the heroine who makes an asp of herself
Antony and Cleopatra
98
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS--600--Trinculo is a jester in this "stormy" drama
The Tempest
99
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES "M"--2000--Feminine form of address for character QuicklyINSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (8)
Mistress
100
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS--800--Dogberry & Verges are 2 foolish officers in this comedy whose title may mean "nada" to you
Much Ado About Nothing
101
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS--1600--Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine in this comedy set in Romeo's town
Two Gentlemen of Verona
102
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!]
Romeo and Juliet
103
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY--400--"Boo-oo!""Bl-bl-bl-bl! Mad! Ow!""Poison!""Mother! Treachery!""Agh-hh-hh-hh!""Ugh!"
Hamlet
104
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!"
Othello
105
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."
Macbeth
106
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."
Antony and Cleopatra
107
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE--400--"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides", warns this woman in Act I of "King Lear"
Cordelia
108
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE--800--He calls Gertude "Our sometime sister, now our Queen"
Claudius
109
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE--1200--In "Troilus and Cressida", King Priam says that this daughter of his "doth foresee" (yes, but does anyone listen?)
Cassandra
110
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE--1600--A rather confused Macbeth says, "The Thane of" this place "lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
Cawdor
111
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE--2000--In "Richard III", Richard's brother George is the doomed duke of this
Clarence
112
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--200--In Act 1, Scene 1 of "Macbeth" this trio vanishes in "the fog and filthy air"
the three witches
113
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--400--Soon after Hamlet finishes his "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech he sees this woman's funeral procession
Ophelia
114
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--600--She says, "that death's unnatural that kills for loving" before Othello strangles her
Desdemona
115
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--2000--"I am a very foolish fond old man", he tells his daughter Cordelia
King Lear
116
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--1000--Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy
Merchant of Venice
117
SHAKESPEARE--200--"Come on, and kiss me, Kate" is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"
The Taming of the Shrew
118
SHAKESPEARE--400--"Henry VI, Part I" features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle
Joan of Arc
119
SHAKESPEARE--1000--In "King John", King John's first words to her are "Silence, good mother; hear the embassy"
Eleanor of Aquitaine
120
SHAKESPEARE--800--Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"
Cassius
121
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Title character who says, "Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli"
Coriolanus
122
SHAKESPEARE--200--Shakespeare's only comedy with "comedy" in the title
Comedy of Errors
123
SHAKESPEARE--400--In it, Puck comments: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
124
SHAKESPEARE--600--What Shylock demanded instead of interest
a pound of flesh
125
SHAKESPEARE--800--Completes the line "If music be the food of love..."
play on
126
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Hamlet's closest friend, only major character left alive at play's end
Horatio
127
SHAKESPEARE--200--Brutus tells him, "You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise"
Marc Antony
128
SHAKESPEARE--400--This "Merchant of Venice" heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony's nephew
Portia
129
SHAKESPEARE--1000--In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, "Know that we have divided in three our kingdom"
'King Lear'
130
SHAKESPEARE--800--At the end of "Hamlet", this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne
Fortinbras
131
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it
Tyre
132
SHAKESPEARE--0-- his death is reported in "King Henry V"
Sir John Falstaff
133
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS--400--Polonius uses the word "outbreak" about Laertes' fiery mind, not this title character
Hamlet
134
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
whoa (ho also accepted)
135
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
obscene
136
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS--1600--This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite
jaded
137
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS--1800--The word "fashionable" came into vogue with Ulysses' speech to Achilles in this play
Troilus and Cressida
138
SHAKESPEARE--200--1 of 3 women named in titles of Shakesperean plays
Cleopatra, Cressida
139
SHAKESPEARE--400--In "Othello", Shakespeare describes jealousy as a "monster" with this facial feature
Green Eyes
140
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Brutus' wife in "Julius Caesar" & the lady lawyer in "The Merchant of Venice" shared this name
Portia
141
SHAKESPEARE--800--These 2 title characters were named Valentine & Proteus
'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
142
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Title character who's Benvolio's buddy
Romeo
143
SHAKESPEARE--200--Near the end of this tragedy, Lodovico tells Gratiano to "seize upon the fortunes of the Moor"
'Othello'
144
SHAKESPEARE--400--In this play's first scene, Bernardo says, "Tis' now struck twelve and a ghost appears soon after"
'Hamlet'
145
SHAKESPEARE--600--Prospero's first line in this play is "Be collected - no more amazement"
'The Tempest'
146
SHAKESPEARE--800--When Benedict says "Come, bid me do anything for thee", she says "Much ado - kill Claudio"
Beatrice
147
SHAKESPEARE--1000--He's the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in "A Midsummer Nights' Dream"
Oberon
148
SHAKESPEARE--200--Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him
Julius Caesar
149
SHAKESPEARE--400--Her dying words are "O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?"
Cleopatra
150
SHAKESPEARE--600--He tells his daughter Cordelia "I fear I am not in my perfect mind"
King Lear
151
SHAKESPEARE--800--The 2 titled ladies in the cast of "Macbeth" are Lady Macbeth & her
Lady Macduff
152
SHAKESPEARE--1000--In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
153
SHAKESPEARE--200--Near the end of this play, Theseus says, "Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time"
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
154
SHAKESPEARE--400--This historical play includes the death of Katharine of Aragon
'Henry VIII'
155
SHAKESPEARE--600--Cordelia's 1st words in this play are "What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent"
'King Lear'
156
SHAKESPEARE--800--Othello kills himself on this island
Cyprus
157
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Ophelia says "pansies" are "for thoughts", this is "for remembrance"
Rosemary
158
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES--400--Every graduate should know he speaks of the "pomp and circumstance" of war to Iago
Othello
159
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES--900--In "Henry IV, Part II", a hostess complains that this knight has "eaten me out of house and home"
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Sir John) Falstaff
160
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES--1200--Trinculo & Caliban makde "strange bedfellows" in this romance
The Tempest
161
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES--1600--Antonio claims he saved Sebastian from "the jaws of death" in this holiday-based comedy
Twelfth Night
162
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES--2000--In this comedy Duke Senior laments to Orlando that they have "seen better days"
As You Like It
163
SHAKESPEARE--200--In "Macbeth" Hecate commands this trio, "And now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring"
Three Witches/Weird Sisters
164
SHAKESPEARE--400--Shakespeare's narrative poem "Venus And Adonis" is based in part on this poet's "Metamorphoses"
Ovid
165
SHAKESPEARE--600--Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson played Benedick & Beatrice in the 1993 film version of this comedy
'Much Ado About Nothing'
166
SHAKESPEARE--2000--This play's last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia's house in Belmont
'The Merchant of Venice'
167
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Many scholars describe this play about a prince of Tyre as a "romance"
'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'
168
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES--200--He said, "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him...but, as he was ambitious, I slew him"
Brutus
169
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES--400--Hamlet says of him, "Here hung these lips that I have kissed I know not how oft"
Yorick
170
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES--600--"Twelfth Night" opens with the line "If music be the food of love," do this
Play On
171
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES--2000--He asked, "Is this a dagger which I see before me?... or art thou but a dagger of the mind"
Macbeth
172
SHAKESPEARE--0--Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen
Cleopatra
173
SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS--0--He is introduced as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"
Marc Antony
174
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--400--In Act I her nurse & mother discuss her upcoming 14th birthday
Juliet
175
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--800--She says of her husband, "His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love" (She was right)
Desdemona
176
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--1200--The Duke of Albany & the Duke of Cornwall are the husbands of these 2 sisters
Goneril
177
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--1600--Hurry up & name this character who makes bawdy puns during a Latin lesson in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Mistress Quickly
178
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--2000--She's the younger sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"
Bianca
179
SHAKESPEARE--200--The character who orders the death of Lady Macduff & her children
Macbeth
180
SHAKESPEARE--400--This title character's ghost appears to Brutus, who calls it a "monstrous apparition"
Julius Caesar
181
SHAKESPEARE--600--Near the end of this play, the king's mount is slain & he has to fight on foot
'Richard III'
182
SHAKESPEARE--800--This goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in Act 5 of "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
Diana
183
SHAKESPEARE--1000--When Viola disguises herself as a boy in this comedy, Olivia falls in love with her
'Twelfth Night'
184
SHAKESPEARE--400--Lavinia has her tongue cut out & Tamora is served her own sons baked in a pie in this far-from-tasteful tragedy
Titus Andronicus
185
SHAKESPEARE--6400--He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law's coffin, but she marries him anyway
Richard III
186
SHAKESPEARE--1200--Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
187
SHAKESPEARE--1600--In "Macbeth", these 3 words immediately precede the line "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
Lay on, Macduff
188
SHAKESPEARE--2000--Guiderius & Arviragus, who pretend to be Polydore & Cadwal, are sons of this title king of Britain
Cymbeline
189
DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR--200--So your uncle killed Dad & married Mom; I say stop brooding, get off your duff & kill your uncle!
Hamlet
190
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!
Othello
191
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
Titus Andronicus
192
SHAKESPEARE--200--Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius' house
Hamlet
193
DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR--800--Regan & Goneril got your inheritance, but you married the King of France; get over your daddy issues!
Cordelia
194
SHAKESPEARE--400--These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls
the Montagues
195
SHAKESPEARE--600--Name shared by the heroine of "The Merchant of Venice" & Brutus' wife in "Julius Caesar"
Portia
196
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
Falstaff
197
SHAKESPEARE--1500--Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending
All's Well That Ends Well
198
SHAKESPEARE--1000--Play containing the line "There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax"
Troilus
199
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
Romeo and Juliet
200
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE--400--Never promise anybody a pound of this; Antonio did, & Shylock tried to collect it (ouch!)
flesh
201
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE--600--Never trust a woman whose words are too flattering--like Goneril in this play
King Lear
202
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE--800--Losing a hanky might lead to some deadly hanky-panky--I learned it from this play
Othello
203
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE--2500--Heed this "Hamlet" character's advice that "the apparel oft proclaims the man"
Polonius
204
SHAKESPEARE--200--Balthasar, his servant, accompanies him to the Capulet vault & remains nearby though ordered to leave
Romeo
205
SHAKESPEARE--400--In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
206
SHAKESPEARE--600--Iago suspects, or pretends to suspect, his wife Emilia of having an affair with this man
Othello
207
SHAKESPEARE--800--In Act 5, Scene 3 of this play, the ghosts of the young princes appear to the title character
Richard III
208
SHAKESPEARE--1000--These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius
Rosencrantz
209
SHAKESPEARE--200--The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I's interest in witchcraft
'Macbeth'
210
SHAKESPEARE--400--This jester makes an appearance in the last act of "Hamlet" when a gravedigger uncovers his skull
Yorick
211
SHAKESPEARE--600--His youngest daughter, Cordelia, shares his stubbornness & refuses to flatter him like her sisters
King Lear
212
SHAKESPEARE--800--"As You Like It" is set in part in this forest
Forest of Arden
213
SHAKESPEARE--2700--Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt
'Henry V'
214
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--200--He probably studied the classics, but Ben Jonson implied he had "small Latin and less" this language
Greek
215
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--400--Peter Brook's unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
216
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--600--In "The Merchant of Venice", his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio's friend Lorenzo
Shylock
217
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--1000--Laertes' last line in this play is "Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!"
'Hamlet'
218
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI--1000--"Umabatha", a Zulu production of this "bewitching" tragedy, appeared in London in 1972
'Macbeth'
219
SHAKESPEARE--400--One Katherine & one Anne are the only wives who appear in the play named for him
Henry VIII
220
SHAKESPEARE--800--Holding this dead daughter in his arms, King Lear says, "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low"
Cordelia
221
SHAKESPEARE--1200--These 2 courtiers were hired by King Claudius to spy on Hamlet
Rosencrantz
222
SHAKESPEARE--1600--In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this Amazon declares, "I was with Hercules and Cadmus once"
Hippolyta
223
SHAKESPEARE--2000--Saturninus opens this play saying, "Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms"
Titus Andronicus
224
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS--200--At 15 she won a Golden Globe for "My So-Called Life"; at 16 she played Leonardo DiCaprio's Juliet
Claire Danes
225
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS--400--He starred in "Coriolanus" in 1979; a few years later he was "Driving Miss Daisy"
Morgan Freeman
226
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS--600--In 1995 he played Iago to Laurence Fishburne's Othello; in 1996 he starred in his own film of "Hamlet"
Kenneth Branagh
227
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS--800--He not only starred in but also directed "Looking For Richard", a film about "Richard III"
Al Pacino
228
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS--1000--Helena Bonham Carter played Olivia in the 1996 film of this comedy subtitled "Or, What You Will"
'Twelfth Night'
229
SHAKESPEAREANA--0--A knight in "Henry VI, Part I" who flees battle to save his life is an early version of this great character
Sir John Falstaff
230
SHAKESPEARE--0-- ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
231
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST WORDS--200--"Two households, both alike in dignity..."
Romeo and Juliet
232
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST WORDS--400--"When shall we three meet again"
Macbeth
233
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST WORDS--600--"Boatswain!"
The Tempest
234
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST WORDS--800--"O for a muse of fire..."
Henry V
235
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST WORDS--1000--"I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night in Messina."
Much Ado About Nothing
236
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--200--Varro, Clitus, Claudius, Strato, Lucius & Dardanius are all servants to Brutus in this play
Julius Caesar
237
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--400--Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar in this tragedy about a mad king
King Lear
238
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--600--In "Othello", Brabantio tells him, "Thou art a villain"; he retorts, "You are -- a senator"
Iago
239
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--800--She tells Oberon, "I know when thou hast stolen away from fairyland...versing love to amorous Phillida"
Titania
240
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--1000--In "Henry VIII", this cardinal's first line is "The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor? Ha!"
Cardinal Wolsey
241
SHAKESPEARE--100--The full title of the play includes his title, "Prince of Denmark"
Hamlet
242
SHAKESPEARE--200--In "The Taming of the Shrew", this character actually says "Kiss me, Kate"
Petruchio
243
SHAKESPEARE--300--This character answers to "Gloucester", because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king
Richard III
244
SHAKESPEARE--700--Cleopatra speaks of these days, "when I was green in judgment"
her salad days
245
SHAKESPEARE--500--This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs
King Lear
246
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES--200--"Legend of Zorro" star Banderas
Antonio
247
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES--400--Current heartthrob actor Bloom
Orlando
248
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES--600--Late "Can-Can" dancer Prowse
Juliet
249
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES--800--Mahogany master Phyfe
Duncan
250
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES--1000--Beauty queen Madame Rubinstein seen here
Helena
251
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES--200--Friar Lawrence urges her to join "a sisterhood of holy nuns" but she ignores him & kills herself
Juliet
252
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES--400--This comedy ends in Lucentio's house, not in Petruchio's
The Taming of the Shrew
253
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES--600--The last scene of this tragedy takes place in a pavillion in Titus' garden in Rome
Titus Andronicus
254
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES--800--This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana
Pericles
255
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES--3100--Shortly before he dies this king laments, "And my poor fool is hang'd!"
King Lear
256
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE--200--"Not that I loved Caesar less", says Brutus, "but that I loved" this city "more"
Rome
257
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE--400--Jessica states that "love is blind" as she elopes (with dad Shylock's ducats) in this comedy
The Merchant of Venice
258
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN--200--Scholars have long sought the identity of the "Dark Lady" who tortures Shakespeare in these poems
Sonnets
259
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"
Hamlet
260
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE--800--She says, "My only love sprung from my only hate!"
Juliet
261
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN--400--They're the main rivers of the 2 cities where Shakespeare spent most of his life
Avon
262
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE--1000--Will's only play with "love" in the title
Love's Labour's Lost
263
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN--600--Shakespeare's daughter Susanna was born 6 months after his marriage to this woman
Anne Hathaway
264
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN--800--Will helped his father obtain one of these, with the motto "Non Sanz Droict", "Not Without Right"
Coat of arms
265
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN--1000--Perhaps written by Shakespeare himself, it ends, "Curst be he that moves my bones"
Epitaph
266
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS--0--One of this heroine's last lines is "Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch"
Cleopatra
267
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN--0--This heroine is murdered on the island of Cyprus, as is her waiting-woman
Desdemona (from "Othello")
268
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE--100--This comedy opens on a Venetian street
'The Merchant of Venice'
269
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE--200--This play's last line is " 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so"
'Taming of the Shrew'
270
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE--300--"All the World's a Stage" is from "As You Like It", the first comedy Shakespeare wrote for this theater
Globe Theater
271
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE--400--This play ends less one Moor as he dies "upon a kiss"
'Othello'
272
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE--500--After this ruler's death, Cinna cries, "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!"
'Julius Caesar'
273
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS--200--"One Severe Storm"
The Tempest
274
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS--400--"Small Village"
Hamlet
275
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS--600--"Lots o' Bustle Concerning Zilch"
Much Ado About Nothing
276
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS--800--"A Subjugation for One Small Burrowing Mammal"
The Taming of the Shrew
277
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS--1000--"Rialto Retailer"
The Merchant of Venice
278
SHAKESPEARE--100--He goes to the Capulets' party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves -- for now
Romeo
279
SHAKESPEARE--200--Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers
Fairies
280
SHAKESPEARE--300--Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes
Richard III
281
SHAKESPEARE--400--It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is "Scone"
'Macbeth'
282
SHAKESPEARE--500--He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar's murder
Brutus
283
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE--200--Sir Toby's last name in "Twelfth Night", or what you shouldn't do at the dinner table
Belch
284
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE--400--Be "Lear"y of her -- she poisoned her sister Regan
Goneril
285
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE--600--"Much Ado About Nothing" features a comical constable with this "canine fruit" name
Dogberry
286
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE--800--Of Lord Poop of Pelham, Lord Scroop of Masham, or Lord Surly of Sneer, the one in "Henry V"
Lord Scroop of Masham
287
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE--1000--An officer with the silly name of Silius shows up in the play named for these historic lovers
'Antony
288
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS--200--Any sap knows it was the instrument of Cleopatra's demise
Asp (for 'sap')
289
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS--400--A big "Hello To" lovers of this tragedy
'Othello' (for 'Hello To')
290
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS--600--Ah, the "sad cries" heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!
Cressida (for 'sad cries')
291
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS--800--An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear
Regan (for 'range')
292
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS--1000--He had a "real set" of gripes with Hamlet, especially after Hamlet killed his dad
Laertes (for 'real set')
293
SHAKESPEARE--0--Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play "Julius Caesar"
"Et tu, Brute?"
294
SHAKESPEARE--200--The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river
Stratford-on-Avon
295
SHAKESPEARE--400--"The Winter's Tale" has the memorable stage direction "Exit pursued by" this ursine beast
a bear
296
SHAKESPEARE--600--Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said "So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece", it "is most certainly an artistic failure"
Hamlet
297
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
the Globe Theatre
298
SHAKESPEARE--1000--One of Shakespeare's sisters had this name, the same as Will's wife
Anne
299
SHAKESPEARE--200--Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck
The Tempest
300
SHAKESPEARE--400--"Umabatha", a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa
Macbeth
301
SHAKESPEARE--1500--Richmond exults, "The bloody dog is dead" after killing this king at Bosworth Field
Richard III
302
SHAKESPEARE--800--In Act V of "Pericles", this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision
Diana
303
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY--100--"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
Julius Caesar
304
SHAKESPEARE--1000--In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called "A Termagant's Domestication"
The Taming of the Shrew
305
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY--200--"Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow"
Romeo and Juliet
306
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY--300--"Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"
Macbeth
307
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY--400--"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Hamlet
308
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY--600--"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath"
The Merchant of Venice
309
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
Hamlet
310
WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER--400--An anaconda squeezing her to death in Act V wouldn't work, so will used an asp instead
Cleopatra
311
WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER--600--Will had this title man do the dirty work in Act V, smothering his wife for her supposed infidelity
Othello
312
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
Macbeth
313
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
Mercutio
314
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE--400--"The Winter's..."
Tale
315
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE--800--"The Tragedy of Hamlet..."
Prince of Denmark
316
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE--1200--"Pericles..."
Prince of Tyre
317
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE--1600--"Twelfth Night, or..."
What You Will
318
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE--2000--"The Third Part of King..."
Henry VI
