Shakespeare Flashcards
What iconically famous woman, nicknamed “La Pucelle,” is the principal villain of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 1?
Joan of Arc “la pucelle” = the maid
Which play by Shakespeare includes these lines? “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged cupid painted blind?”
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Which play by Shakespeare includes these lines? “Why, there they are, both baked in this pie; whereof their mother daintily hath fed”
Titus Andronicus
Which play by Shakespeare includes these lines? “His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights”
Richard III
John F. Kennedy memorized the “St. Crispin’s Day” speech from this play and would often quote it.
Henry V
Subject of a less-known Shakespeare play, he was a 1st century king of Britain and father of Caractacus.
Cymbeline
The legendary Danish hero Amleth inspired Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet and the castle at Kronborg inspired this setting for nearly every scene of the play.
Helsingør
Hamlet instructs this friend “Draw thy breath in pain to tell my story” which is why a guide leads tours of Kronborg Castle as this character.
Horatio
Shakespeare may have gotten the names of these courtiers from two members of the Danish nobility.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
After pledging her love to King Priam’s son, she betrays him and takes up with Diomedes.
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare play on the Trojan War)
It’s the 7-word first line of “Richard III”.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Which city in northeast Italy did Shakespeare’s ‘Two Gentlemen’ come from?
Verona
This comedy whose title aims to please says, “I charge you, O men… That between you and the women the play may please.”
As You Like It
What Shakespeare play inspired the title of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”?
The Tempest
This man says, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”, but he’s not being quite truthful.
Mark Antony
