Shakespeare Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Paris calls this character a “banished haughty Montague”
Romeo
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio
Portia
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Nahum Tate’s 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the Fool & added a love affair between Edgar & Cordelia
King Lear
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I of this tragedy is set in Venice; Act II, in Cyprus
Othello
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name
Twelfth Night
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 “King Lear” characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns
Cordelia and the Fool
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play the Duke of Albany is Goneril’s husband
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Merchant of Venice”, Jessica is his daughter
Shylock
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Guildenstern says, “O, there has been much throwing about of brains”
Hamlet
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page
The Merry Wives of Windsor
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He says, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”
Cassius
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “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
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play’s line “murder most foul” has been used as the title of mystery & crime books
Hamlet
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway
Richard III
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”
Eleanor of Aquitaine
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “and damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”
“Lay on, Macduff”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Desdemona’s lady-in-waiting is Emilia, this man’s wife
Iago
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Much of Act V of this play is set at Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola & Sebastian in this comedy
Twelfth Night
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Most of “Hamlet” is set in this Danish seaport
Elsinore
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s described as “The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool”
Marc Antony
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She is the “Shrew” whom Petruchio must tame
Katarina
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He cannot overcome temptation or ambition but does ignore his own scruples to murder Duncan
Macbeth
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title of this problem comedy tells you how everything is going to turn out when the play is over
All’s Well that Ends Well
$3000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 seasons are found in the titles of Shakespeare plays
winter & summer
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Achilles & Ajax are characters in this play
Troilus & Cressida
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title queen uses an asp, a “poor venomous fool”, to kill herself
Cleopatra
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This moneylender asks, “Hates any man the thing he would not kill?”
Shylock
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He uses the word “assassination” for what he plans to do to Duncan
Macbeth
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Women in this king’s play included Katharine, wife to the king, later divorced, & Anne, maid of honor, later queen
Henry VIII
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Characters in this play include the charming Rosalind & the sardonic Jaques
As You Like It
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes is Ophelia’s brother in this end-all, be-all of Shakespeare’s plays
Hamlet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Desdemona is the wife of the title character of this tragedy
Othello
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shylock gives the “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” speech in this play
The Merchant Of Venice
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Proteus & Valentine are “the two gentlemen of” this place, also the setting of “Romeo And Juliet”
Verona
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Malcolm gets the last word (literally) in this play
Macbeth
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, among the items in this container are scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, tongue of dog & toe of frog
the witch’s cauldron
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She was worried when Hamlet came to her “pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other”
Ophelia
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Twelfth Night” opens with, “If music be the food of love,” do this
play on
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Caesar says this man “thinks too much: such men are dangerous” (No, it’s not Brutus)
Cassius
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 2-word phrase for a predetermined ending; Othello talks of one in Act III
a foregone conclusion
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She cleverly disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio from Shylock’s revenge
Portia
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes tells her, “For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor” are “not permanent, sweet, not lasting”
Ophelia
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s the storm-raising Duke of “The Tempest”
Prospero
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A setting in “As You Like It”, it’s also the name of an ancient wooded area near Shakespeare’s home
the Forest of Arden
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Pandosto: The Triumph of Time” was the source for this “Tale” of romance
The Winter’s Tale
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Puck says, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” in this comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some friend–he’s the last to stab Julius Caesar & it’s his idea that the conspirators wash their hands in Caesar’s blood
Brutus
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title guy: “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”
Hamlet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Comedy in which Benedick says Beatrice exceeds Hero “in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December”
Much Ado About Nothing
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Quite an eyeful, he’s the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo
Paris
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river
Stratford-on-Avon
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “The Winter’s Tale” has the memorable stage direction “Exit pursued by” this ursine beast
a bear
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said “So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece”, it “is most certainly an artistic failure”
Hamlet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 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
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| One of Shakespeare’s sisters had this name, the same as Will’s wife
Anne
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play “Julius Caesar”
"Et tu, Brute?"
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| One Katherine & one Anne are the only wives who appear in the play named for him
Henry VIII
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Holding this dead daughter in his arms, King Lear says, “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low”
Cordelia
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 courtiers were hired by King Claudius to spy on Hamlet
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this Amazon declares, “I was with Hercules and Cadmus once”
Hippolyta
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Saturninus opens this play saying, “Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms”
Titus Andronicus
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter
Cordelia
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Miranda’s father, he ends “The Tempest” with an epilogue
Prospero
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Romeo and Juliet” begins, “Two households, both alike in” this
dignity
$3000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Comedy in which Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage
(2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Macduff tells us, “Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top” this man
the Macbeth
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Richard III says, “How sweet a thing it is to wear” one & Henry IV says, “Uneasy lies the head that wears” one
a crown
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes’ first line in this play is “Dread my lord, your leave and favour to return to France”
Hamlet
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In different plays, it’s the name shared by men linked with Helen of Troy & with Juliet
Paris
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s the play in which Thaliard says, “So, this is Tyre, and this the court”
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The name of this play refers to a violent windstorm
The Tempest
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play in which Iago says, “In sleep I heard him say, ‘Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves!’”
Othello
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Before disinheriting Cordelia, this man warns her, “Nothing will come of nothing”
King Lear
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The fair Bianca has an older, somewhat unpleasant sister named Katherine in this play
The Taming of the Shrew
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Valentine & his friend Proteus are the title characters of this play
Two Gentlemen of Verona
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brabantio, this woman’s father, dies of grief over her marriage to Othello
Desdemona
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This tragic king cries, “Keep me in temper; I would not be mad”
King Lear
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The name of the monstrous Caliban in this play is an anagram of an old spelling of “cannibal”
The Tempest
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Stratford-upon-Avon, England) You’ll find “The whining schoolboy creeping like snail unwillingly to school” in “The Ages of Man” speech from this Shakespeare play
As You Like It
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A guilty Macbeth laments, “Methought I heard a voice cry” do this “‘no more!’”
sleep
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Mercutio declares “A plague o’ both your houses” in this play
Romeo and Juliet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Beware the ides of March” is a line from this play
Julius Caesar
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The basic situation of this play resembles the Elizabethan ballad “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife”
Taming of the Shrew
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” says, “The course of true love never did” this
run smooth
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This “tale” was acted at court in November 1611, a bit early for its title
The Winter’s Tale
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona
Iago
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cicero & Publius are senators in this tragedy
Julius Caesar
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s the name of Romeo’s family
Montague
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Claudius commissions these 2 minor characters, Hamlet’s schoolmates, to spy on Hamlet
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Completes Dick the Butcher’s “The first thing we do, let’s…”
kill all the lawyers
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Love goes toward love as school-boys from their books”, says this young man to Juliet
Romeo
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Lavinia has her tongue cut out & Tamora is served her own sons baked in a pie in this far-from-tasteful tragedy
Titus Andronicus
$6400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway
Richard III
$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”
Lay on, Macduff
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Guiderius & Arviragus, who pretend to be Polydore & Cadwal, are sons of this title king of Britain
Cymbeline
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s synonyms for this body part include sconce, noll, poll, pash & pate
head
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Looking for a title for your mystery novel? Lift this play’s “murder most foul” or “not a mouse stirring”
Hamlet
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In a 1936 production Orson Welles moved the setting of this play from the heath to Haiti
Macbeth
$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her Uncle Pandarus encourages her affair with Troilus
Cressida
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “As You Like It” is partially set in the forest of this
Arden
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “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
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Henry VI, Part I” features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle
Joan of Arc
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”
Eleanor of Aquitaine
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Julius Caesar observes that this man “has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”
Cassius
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title character who says, “Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli”
Coriolanus
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Many historians disagree with Shakespeare’s portrayal of this king as a hunchbacked, villainous monster
Richard III
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Tempest” he was the rightful Duke of Milan, although his brother threw him out of the city
Prospero
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His daughters drive this man to cry out, “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play that contains the line “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”
“Hamlet”
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After masquerading as Benedick, Claudio says, “All hearts in love use their own tongues” in this comedy
“Much Ado About Nothing”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This city is home to Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew” & the Montagues & Capulets in “Romeo and Juliet”
Verona
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Assassin to whom Cassius says the fault “Is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”
Brutus
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Tempest” he’s the former Duke of Milan, now magician-ruler of a remote island
Prospero
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Doubting his attractiveness to Doll Tearsheet in “Henry I
Sir John Falstaff
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Although not historically accurate, Shakespeare set Macbeth’s demise at this hill near Perth
Dunsinane
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In lists of Shakespeare’s plays, this comedy is placed first alphabetically
“All’s Well That Ends Well”
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Twin brothers, both named Antipholus, have slaves named Dromio who are also twins in this confusing comedy
“The Comedy of Errors”
$900 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Octavius speaks last in these 2 plays
“Julius Caesar” & “Antony and Cleopatra”
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Banished from Rome though he captured Corioli, this title warrior says, “You common cry of curs…I banish you!”
Coriolanus
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Disguised as a lawyer, Portia foils Shylock’s plan to collect a pound of flesh in this play
“The Merchant of Venice”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This character who loved Cressida was a prince of Troy
Troilus
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act I of this play, Cordelia says, “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”
“King Lear”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare laid the scene of this tragedy in “Fair Verona”
“Romeo and Juliet”
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “‘Tis incredible to believe how much she loves me. O the kindest Kate!” Petruchio says in this play
“The Taming of the Shrew”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After Othello stabs him, this villain says, “I bleed, sir, but not kill’d”
Iago
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This mischievous trickster delivers the epilogue to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Puck
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In the lottery of the caskets in “The Merchant of Venice”, Bassanio chooses a casket made of this element
Lead
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| As he dies in Alexandria, his last words are “Now my spirit is going. I can no more”
Antony
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title character imprisons his brother, the Duke of Clarence, in the Tower of London
Richard III
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Mercutio is mortally wounded in this play, he puns, “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man”
Romeo and Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Meryl Streep & Raul Julia starred onstage in this comedy in 1978, 11 years after the Taylor & Burton film
Taming of the Shrew
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This king’s fool tells him, “I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing”
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s Falstaff’s first name
(Sir) John
$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The maiden name of Shakespeare’s mother, or the forest where he set much of “As You Like It”
Arden
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This comedy’s last line, “Strike up, pipers!”, is spoken by Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Though Juliet married Romeo & Romeo married Juliet, he married both of them
Friar Lawrence
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play is set partly in Corioli, as you may surmise
Coriolanus
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Venice you may find the answer to the “Merchant Of Venice” question “What news on?” this bridge
The Rialto
$1400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, it’s the 5-word phrase that precedes “Fire burn and cauldron bubble”
“Double, double toil and trouble”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck
The Tempest
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Umabatha”, a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa
Macbeth
$1500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Richmond exults, “The bloody dog is dead” after killing this king at Bosworth Field
Richard III
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act V of “Pericles”, this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision
Diana
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called “A Termagant’s Domestication”
The Taming of the Shrew
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He goes to the Capulets’ party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves – for now
Romeo
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers
Fairies
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes
Richard III
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is “Scone”
“Macbeth”
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar’s murder
Brutus
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A cute dog named Crab appears in the comedy about “The Two Gentlemen of” this city
Verona
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In 1964 Diana Rigg appeared as Adriana in “The Comedy of Errors” & Cordelia in this tragedy
“King Lear”
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The play in which Portia says, “I never did repent for doing good, nor shall not now”
“The Merchant of Venice”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Friendly Shakespeare” calls this comedy about gleeful spouses “An Elizabethan I Love Lucy”
“Merry Wives of Windsor”
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Vincentio, duke of this Austrian city, is the first character to speak in “Measure for Measure”
Vienna
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet tells this man that Yorick was “A fellow of infinite jest”
Horatio
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” includes the line “The course of” this “never did run smooth”
True love
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| To be sure, one of his soliloquies begins, “How all occasions do inform against me”
Hamlet
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She persuades her husband to kill Duncan
Lady Macbeth
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Gratiano has the last speech; Portia has the next to last
“The Merchant of Venice”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title teenager who says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet”
Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act III, Scene I of this play takes place on March 15, also known as the Ides of March
Julius Caesar
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This queen likes to play billiards when she’s not playing around with Antony
Cleopatra
$1300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespearean character who speaks the lines heard <a>here</a>: <i>“O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit: …the rest is silence”</i>
Hamlet
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Othello decides he wants to poison Desdemona, this villain suggests that he strangle her instead
Iago
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s only play named for a Tudor monarch
Henry VIII
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She delivers the line “Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow”
Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Fairies in this play include Cobweb, Peaseblossom & Mustardseed
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern almost always appear together
Hamlet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At Bosworth Field, he shouts, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Richard III
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| They’re the 3 daughters of King Lear
Cordelia, Goneril & Regan
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Friar Lawrence laments that this pair’s “stol’n marriage day was Tybalt’s doomsday”
Romeo and Juliet
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command”, & she sleepwalks carrying a taper
Lady Macbeth
$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some scholars think this bawdy comedy was based on a ballad, “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife…”
“The Taming of the Shrew”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I, scene 1 of this play is set in front of Priam’s palace in Troy
“Troilus and Cressida”
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After stabbing him, Hamlet cries, “This incestuous, murderous, damned Dane…follow my mother”
Claudius
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I’s interest in witchcraft
“Macbeth”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This jester makes an appearance in the last act of “Hamlet” when a gravedigger uncovers his skull
Yorick
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His youngest daughter, Cordelia, shares his stubbornness & refuses to flatter him like her sisters
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “As You Like It” is set in part in this forest
Forest of Arden
$2700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt
“Henry V”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Balthasar, his servant, accompanies him to the Capulet vault & remains nearby though ordered to leave
Romeo
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Iago suspects, or pretends to suspect, his wife Emilia of having an affair with this man
Othello
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act 5, Scene 3 of this play, the ghosts of the young princes appear to the title character
Richard III
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius’ house
Hamlet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls
the Montagues & the Capulets
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Name shared by the heroine of “The Merchant of Venice” & Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar”
Portia
$1500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending
All’s Well That Ends Well
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play containing the line “There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax”
Troilus & Cressida
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this tragedy, Lodovico tells Gratiano to “seize upon the fortunes of the Moor”
“Othello”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play’s first scene, Bernardo says, “Tis’ now struck twelve and a ghost appears soon after”
“Hamlet”
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Prospero’s first line in this play is “Be collected - no more amazement”
“The Tempest”
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Benedict says “Come, bid me do anything for thee”, she says “Much ado - kill Claudio”
Beatrice
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in “A Midsummer Nights’ Dream”
Oberon
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare called this doomed duo “a pair of star-cross’d lovers”
Romeo & Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| During the Restoration, it became popular for singers & dancers to play the witches in this tragedy
Macbeth
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The last scene of “Richard II” is set in this famous royal castle west of London
Windsor Castle
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Mickey Rooney said he’d “never read Shakespeare before or since” he played Puck in a film version of this comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Surprisingly, Shylock only appears in 5 of this play’s scenes, & he’s gone by the last act
The Merchant of Venice
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him
Julius Caesar
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her dying words are “O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?”
Cleopatra
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He tells his daughter Cordelia “I fear I am not in my perfect mind”
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The 2 titled ladies in the cast of “Macbeth” are Lady Macbeth & her
Lady Macduff
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth” Hecate commands this trio, “And now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring”
Three Witches/Weird Sisters
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus And Adonis” is based in part on this poet’s “Metamorphoses”
Ovid
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson played Benedick & Beatrice in the 1993 film version of this comedy
“Much Ado About Nothing”
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play’s last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia’s house in Belmont
“The Merchant of Venice”
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Many scholars describe this play about a prince of Tyre as a “romance”
“Pericles, Prince of Tyre”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her nurse tells her, “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed”
Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She’s walking in her sleep when she says “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Lady Macbeth
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This prince stabs King Claudius with a poisoned rapier
Hamlet
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Settings for this play include an open place by the seaside in Pentapolis & the palace in Tyre
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Character who says “Speak of me as one that love not wisely, but too well”
Othello
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play about a Moor was inspired by a tale in Cinthio’s “Hecatommithi”
Othello
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play inspired Robert Browning’s poem “Caliban Upon Setebos”
The Tempest
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this comedy Julia disguises herself as a boy to follow Proteus from Verona to Milan
Two Gentlemen of Verona
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Falstaff’s last line in this comedy is “When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased”
The Merry Wives of Windsor
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Guinness says 4 of the actors died during Sir John Gielgud’s 1942 production of this “bad luck” play
Macbeth
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brutus tells him, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise”
Marc Antony
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This “Merchant of Venice” heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony’s nephew
Portia
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, “Know that we have divided in three our kingdom”
King Lear
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At the end of “Hamlet”, this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne
Fortinbras
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it
Tyre
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These lovers do “with their death bury their parents’ strife”
Romeo and Juliet
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The play in which Emilia screams, “The moor hath kill’d my mistress! Murder! Murder!”
Othello
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio
Hamlet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Merchant of Venice” he tells his friend Tubal, “Meet me at our synagogue”
Shylock
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King Lear”, she poisons her sister Regan, then stabs herself
Goneril
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cobweb is a fairy, not a spider, in this comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet gives his “Alas, poor Yorick!” soliloquy in this location
a graveyard
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After Emilia is stabbed in this tragedy, she says, “I will play the swan” & sings before she dies
Othello
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare wrote, “When in disgrace with” this “and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”
Fortune
$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This young woman lives on an island with her father, a magician
Miranda
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The full title of the play includes his title, “Prince of Denmark”
Hamlet
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Taming of the Shrew”, this character actually says “Kiss me, Kate”
Petruchio
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This character answers to “Gloucester”, because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king
Richard III
$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cleopatra speaks of these days, “when I was green in judgment”
her salad days
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs
King Lear
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The character who orders the death of Lady Macduff & her children
Macbeth
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title character’s ghost appears to Brutus, who calls it a “monstrous apparition”
Julius Caesar
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this play, the king’s mount is slain & he has to fight on foot
“Richard III”
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in Act 5 of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”
Diana
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Viola disguises herself as a boy in this comedy, Olivia falls in love with her
“Twelfth Night”
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen
Cleopatra
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this play, Theseus says, “Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time”
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This historical play includes the death of Katharine of Aragon
“Henry VIII”
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cordelia’s 1st words in this play are “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”
“King Lear”
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Othello kills himself on this island
Cyprus
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Ophelia says “pansies” are “for thoughts”, this is “for remembrance”
Rosemary
$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He appears in 3 of Shakespeare’s plays & his death is reported in “King Henry V”
Sir John Falstaff
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 1 of 3 women named in titles of Shakesperean plays
Cleopatra, Cressida & Juliet
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Othello”, Shakespeare describes jealousy as a “monster” with this facial feature
Green Eyes
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar” & the lady lawyer in “The Merchant of Venice” shared this name
Portia
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 title characters were named Valentine & Proteus
“Two Gentlemen of Verona”
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title character who’s Benvolio’s buddy
Romeo
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This comedy features a woman named Hero & a hero named Benedick, but it isn’t “Much”
Much Ado About Nothing
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Villain in “Othello” who says, “Wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used”
Iago
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Make no mistake: this play about twins was “musicalized” as “The Boys from Syracuse”
A Comedy of Errors
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Antony and Cleopatra”, Marc Antony commits suicide by doing this
falling on his blade
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He was banished from Verona for killing Tybalt
Romeo
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Canada’s best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare
Stratford, Ontario
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field
Richard III
$900 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other
Duncan
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Rejected lover whose last words are “If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”
Paris
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set
“Othello”
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Antony said this assassin of Caesar made “the most unkindest cut of all”
Brutus
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Henry IV complained “Uneasy lies the head” that does this
wears the crown
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Falstaff was said to have “eaten” a widow “out of” this
house and home
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At Hamlet’s death he says, “Good night, sweet prince”
Horatio
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Expression “O brave new world” comes from this last play Shakespeare wrote alone
The Tempest
$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Sweets to the sweet: Farewell!” were Hamlet’s mother’s words at this woman’s funeral
Ophelia
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Part of Cassius’ anatomy Brutus calls “itching” when accusing him of greed
palm
$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies”
Cleopatra
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Susanna & the twins, Hamnet & Judith
Shakespeare’s children
$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The lines “And thereby hangs a tale” & “All the world’s a stage” come from this comedy
As You Like It
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s only comedy with “comedy” in the title
Comedy of Errors
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In it, Puck comments: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| What Shylock demanded instead of interest
a pound of flesh
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Completes the line “If music be the food of love…”
play on
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end
Horatio
$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet found “something rotten” in this country
Denmark
$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The Moor who loved Desdemona “not wisely, but too well”
Othello
$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Battle of the sexes on which musical “Kiss Me Kate” was based
The Taming of the Shrew
$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one
Falstaff
$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her
Anne Hathaway
