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