Shakespeare Jeopardy Flashcards
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–400–This character described himself as having “more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty”
Falstaff
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–800–000-line poem about this title Homeric pair”
Troilus and Criseyde
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
Titus Andronicus
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–1600–In this comedy featuring a “fantastical Spaniard”, 4 guys take a 3-year vow of celibacy & wackiness ensues
Love’s Labour’s Lost
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–2000–The last of the tragedies, this play deals with the conflict between Rome’s patrician & plebeian classes
Coriolanus
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–400–Her lover called her “My Serpent of Old Nile”
Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–800–Goneril is the eldest of his 3 daughters
Lear
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1200–The king of Scotland was Macbeth’s cousin
Duncan
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1600–For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–2000–About this queen, Hamlet says, “Frailty, thy name is woman”
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Queen) Gertrude
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–400–Jealous Moor’s stringed instruments
Othello’s cellos
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–800–Regan’s father’s lachrymal discharges
Lear’s tears
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1200–Robin Goodfellow’s formal attire
Puck’s tux
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1600–Calpurnia’s husband’s small metal hair pluckers
Caesar’s tweezers
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–2000–It’s the Afghani Islamic fundamentalist regime that Prospero’s slave would lead
the Caliban Taliban (Caliban’s Talibans accepted)
SHAKESPEARE–400–King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter
Cordelia
SHAKESPEARE–800–Miranda’s father, he ends “The Tempest” with an epilogue
Prospero
SHAKESPEARE–1200–“Romeo and Juliet” begins, “Two households, both alike in” this
dignity
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–400–Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Falstaff
SHAKESPEARE–3000–Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–800–During his brief time on stage, Curtis, this man’s aged servant, does get to say “Shrew”
Petruchio
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–1200–Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don’t have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines
Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE–2000–Comedy in which Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–200–“Tis’ a wonder, by your leave she will be tamed so”
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–400–“Give me your hands if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–800–“And then to Rome–Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity”
Antony and Cleopatra
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
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–In “The Tempest” he’s invisible to everyone but Prospero
Ariel
“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
“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
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–Romeo buys poison with which to kill himself from a minor character with this job title
apothecary
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–An Italian businessman with this first name is “The Merchant of Venice”
Antonio
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
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
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
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
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
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–200–Chorus: “Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene”
Romeo
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–400–The Duke of Gloucester: “Now is the winter of our discontent”
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–600–Theseus: “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–500–Flavius: “Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home”
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–1000–The Earl of Kent: “I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–This king’s corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of “Henry VI, Part I”
Henry V
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who’s a simple constable in “Measure For Measure”
Elbow
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–In a famous speech, this woman describes mercy as “An attribute to God himself”
Portia
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–800–Title character who says, “When I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute”
Pericles
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Cassandra, a prophetess whose father is the king of Troy, is a character in this play
‘Troilus and Cressida’
SHAKESPEAREAN ROYALTY–0– the corpse of Henry VI appear in the play named for him
Richard III
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–200–This fairy king’s first line is “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”
Oberon
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–400–Famous “tamer” who enters saying, “Verona for a while I take my leave”
Petruchio
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
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–800–His first line consists of just one word, “Calphurnia!”
Julius Caesar
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
SHAKESPEARE–200–Canada’s best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare
Stratford, Ontario
SHAKESPEARE–400–The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–900–Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other
Duncan
SHAKESPEARE–800–Rejected lover whose last words are “If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”
Paris
SHAKESPEARE–1000–The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set
‘Othello’
SHAKESPEARE–200–Hamlet found “something rotten” in this country
Denmark
SHAKESPEARE–400–The Moor who loved Desdemona “not wisely, but too well”
Othello
SHAKESPEARE–600–Battle of the sexes on which musical “Kiss Me Kate” was based
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEARE–800–Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one
Falstaff
SHAKESPEARE–1000–She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her
Anne Hathaway
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–400–The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery
a hearse
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–800–A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge
a sphere
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–A Mexican poncho without the hole
a serape
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–To delete recorded data
erase
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–Basking or bonnethead
a shark
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–200–Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city
London
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–200–It’s the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn’s opera “Le Marchand de Venise”
The Merchant of Venice
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–400–In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of “This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
Macbeth
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–400–The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers
Romeo
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–600–You’ll need some long-winded singers to star in “Stormen”, a Swedish opera based on this play
The Tempest
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’
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–800–Verdi wrote an aria called “La Luce Langue”–The Light Fails–for this bloothirsty villainess
Lady Macbeth
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–500–Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet
Othello
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–800–It’s believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this “Utopia” author
St. Thomas More
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–Shakespeare’s theatrical company became known as The King’s Men in honor of this king’s patronage
James I
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–200–Characters from this play circling Uranus are Ariel & Miranda
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–400–Goneril & Regan’s sister orbiting Uranus
Cordelia
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–600–Othello called her his “Fair Warrior”
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–800–When found by a watchman, she was “Bleeding, warm and newly dead”; now she’s found around Uranus
Juliet
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–1000–Moons III & IV are this royal fairy pair from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Titania
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–400–“Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell”, said Othello of this character; he later took it back
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–800–“All that is within him does condemn itself for being there”, said Menteith of the title character in this tragedy
Macbeth
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
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–1600–Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, “The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”
Troilus and Cressida
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
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–400–Surname of Romeo’s fatherINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)
Montague
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–800–“Midsummer” fairy with an insect nameINSERT INTO clue VALUES (4)
Moth
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–1200–Prospero is the deposed Duke of itINSERT INTO clue VALUES (5)
Milan
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–200–The humans in this play inspire Puck to say, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–3000–The last proper name spoken by MacbethINSERT INTO clue VALUES (7)
Macduff
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–400–Though this historical play contains a clown, it’s the heroine who makes an asp of herself
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–600–Trinculo is a jester in this “stormy” drama
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–2000–Feminine form of address for character QuicklyINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)
Mistress
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–800–Dogberry & Verges are 2 foolish officers in this comedy whose title may mean “nada” to you
Much Ado About Nothing
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–1600–Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine in this comedy set in Romeo’s town
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–400–“Boo-oo!”“Bl-bl-bl-bl! Mad! Ow!”“Poison!”“Mother! Treachery!”“Agh-hh-hh-hh!”“Ugh!”
Hamlet
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
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
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
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides”, warns this woman in Act I of “King Lear”
Cordelia
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–800–He calls Gertude “Our sometime sister, now our Queen”
Claudius
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–In “Troilus and Cressida”, King Priam says that this daughter of his “doth foresee” (yes, but does anyone listen?)
Cassandra
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–A rather confused Macbeth says, “The Thane of” this place “lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
Cawdor
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–In “Richard III”, Richard’s brother George is the doomed duke of this
Clarence
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–In Act 1, Scene 1 of “Macbeth” this trio vanishes in “the fog and filthy air”
the three witches
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Soon after Hamlet finishes his “Alas, poor Yorick!” speech he sees this woman’s funeral procession
Ophelia
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–600–She says, “that death’s unnatural that kills for loving” before Othello strangles her
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–2000–“I am a very foolish fond old man”, he tells his daughter Cordelia
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy
Merchant of Venice
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
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
SHAKESPEARE–1000–In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”
Eleanor of Aquitaine
SHAKESPEARE–800–Julius Caesar observes that this man “has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”
Cassius
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Title character who says, “Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli”
Coriolanus
SHAKESPEARE–200–Shakespeare’s only comedy with “comedy” in the title
Comedy of Errors
SHAKESPEARE–400–In it, Puck comments: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE–600–What Shylock demanded instead of interest
a pound of flesh
SHAKESPEARE–800–Completes the line “If music be the food of love…”
play on
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end
Horatio
SHAKESPEARE–200–Brutus tells him, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise”
Marc Antony
SHAKESPEARE–400–This “Merchant of Venice” heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony’s nephew
Portia
SHAKESPEARE–1000–In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, “Know that we have divided in three our kingdom”
‘King Lear’
SHAKESPEARE–800–At the end of “Hamlet”, this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne
Fortinbras
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it
Tyre
SHAKESPEARE–0– his death is reported in “King Henry V”
Sir John Falstaff
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–400–Polonius uses the word “outbreak” about Laertes’ fiery mind, not this title character
Hamlet
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)
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
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–1600–This word in “Henry VI Part 2” meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite
jaded
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS–1800–The word “fashionable” came into vogue with Ulysses’ speech to Achilles in this play
Troilus and Cressida
SHAKESPEARE–200–1 of 3 women named in titles of Shakesperean plays
Cleopatra, Cressida
SHAKESPEARE–400–In “Othello”, Shakespeare describes jealousy as a “monster” with this facial feature
Green Eyes
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar” & the lady lawyer in “The Merchant of Venice” shared this name
Portia
SHAKESPEARE–800–These 2 title characters were named Valentine & Proteus
‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Title character who’s Benvolio’s buddy
Romeo
SHAKESPEARE–200–Near the end of this tragedy, Lodovico tells Gratiano to “seize upon the fortunes of the Moor”
‘Othello’
SHAKESPEARE–400–In this play’s first scene, Bernardo says, “Tis’ now struck twelve and a ghost appears soon after”
‘Hamlet’
SHAKESPEARE–600–Prospero’s first line in this play is “Be collected - no more amazement”
‘The Tempest’
SHAKESPEARE–800–When Benedict says “Come, bid me do anything for thee”, she says “Much ado - kill Claudio”
Beatrice
SHAKESPEARE–1000–He’s the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in “A Midsummer Nights’ Dream”
Oberon
SHAKESPEARE–200–Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEARE–400–Her dying words are “O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?”
Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE–600–He tells his daughter Cordelia “I fear I am not in my perfect mind”
King Lear
SHAKESPEARE–800–The 2 titled ladies in the cast of “Macbeth” are Lady Macbeth & her
Lady Macduff
SHAKESPEARE–1000–In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
SHAKESPEARE–200–Near the end of this play, Theseus says, “Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time”
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
SHAKESPEARE–400–This historical play includes the death of Katharine of Aragon
‘Henry VIII’
SHAKESPEARE–600–Cordelia’s 1st words in this play are “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”
‘King Lear’
SHAKESPEARE–800–Othello kills himself on this island
Cyprus
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Ophelia says “pansies” are “for thoughts”, this is “for remembrance”
Rosemary
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–400–Every graduate should know he speaks of the “pomp and circumstance” of war to Iago
Othello
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
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–1200–Trinculo & Caliban makde “strange bedfellows” in this romance
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–1600–Antonio claims he saved Sebastian from “the jaws of death” in this holiday-based comedy
Twelfth Night
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES–2000–In this comedy Duke Senior laments to Orlando that they have “seen better days”
As You Like It
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
SHAKESPEARE–400–Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus And Adonis” is based in part on this poet’s “Metamorphoses”
Ovid
SHAKESPEARE–600–Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson played Benedick & Beatrice in the 1993 film version of this comedy
‘Much Ado About Nothing’
SHAKESPEARE–2000–This play’s last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia’s house in Belmont
‘The Merchant of Venice’
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Many scholars describe this play about a prince of Tyre as a “romance”
‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre’
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–200–He said, “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him…but, as he was ambitious, I slew him”
Brutus
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–400–Hamlet says of him, “Here hung these lips that I have kissed I know not how oft”
Yorick
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–600–“Twelfth Night” opens with the line “If music be the food of love,” do this
Play On
SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES–2000–He asked, “Is this a dagger which I see before me?… or art thou but a dagger of the mind”
Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE–0–Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen
Cleopatra
SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS–0–He is introduced as “The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool”
Marc Antony
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–400–In Act I her nurse & mother discuss her upcoming 14th birthday
Juliet
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–800–She says of her husband, “His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love” (She was right)
Desdemona
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–1200–The Duke of Albany & the Duke of Cornwall are the husbands of these 2 sisters
Goneril
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
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–2000–She’s the younger sister in “The Taming of the Shrew”
Bianca
SHAKESPEARE–200–The character who orders the death of Lady Macduff & her children
Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE–400–This title character’s ghost appears to Brutus, who calls it a “monstrous apparition”
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEARE–600–Near the end of this play, the king’s mount is slain & he has to fight on foot
‘Richard III’
SHAKESPEARE–800–This goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in Act 5 of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”
Diana
SHAKESPEARE–1000–When Viola disguises herself as a boy in this comedy, Olivia falls in love with her
‘Twelfth Night’
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
SHAKESPEARE–6400–He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–1200–Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
SHAKESPEARE–1600–In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”
Lay on, Macduff
SHAKESPEARE–2000–Guiderius & Arviragus, who pretend to be Polydore & Cadwal, are sons of this title king of Britain
Cymbeline
DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–200–So your uncle killed Dad & married Mom; I say stop brooding, get off your duff & kill your uncle!
Hamlet
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
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
SHAKESPEARE–200–Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius’ house
Hamlet
DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR–800–Regan & Goneril got your inheritance, but you married the King of France; get over your daddy issues!
Cordelia
SHAKESPEARE–400–These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls
the Montagues
SHAKESPEARE–600–Name shared by the heroine of “The Merchant of Venice” & Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar”
Portia
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
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
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Play containing the line “There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax”
Troilus
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
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–400–Never promise anybody a pound of this; Antonio did, & Shylock tried to collect it (ouch!)
flesh
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–600–Never trust a woman whose words are too flattering–like Goneril in this play
King Lear
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–800–Losing a hanky might lead to some deadly hanky-panky–I learned it from this play
Othello
I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE–2500–Heed this “Hamlet” character’s advice that “the apparel oft proclaims the man”
Polonius
SHAKESPEARE–200–Balthasar, his servant, accompanies him to the Capulet vault & remains nearby though ordered to leave
Romeo
SHAKESPEARE–400–In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
SHAKESPEARE–600–Iago suspects, or pretends to suspect, his wife Emilia of having an affair with this man
Othello
SHAKESPEARE–800–In Act 5, Scene 3 of this play, the ghosts of the young princes appear to the title character
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–1000–These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius
Rosencrantz
SHAKESPEARE–200–The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I’s interest in witchcraft
‘Macbeth’
SHAKESPEARE–400–This jester makes an appearance in the last act of “Hamlet” when a gravedigger uncovers his skull
Yorick
SHAKESPEARE–600–His youngest daughter, Cordelia, shares his stubbornness & refuses to flatter him like her sisters
King Lear
SHAKESPEARE–800–“As You Like It” is set in part in this forest
Forest of Arden
SHAKESPEARE–2700–Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt
‘Henry V’
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–200–He probably studied the classics, but Ben Jonson implied he had “small Latin and less” this language
Greek
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–400–Peter Brook’s unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–600–In “The Merchant of Venice”, his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio’s friend Lorenzo
Shylock
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’
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–“Umabatha”, a Zulu production of this “bewitching” tragedy, appeared in London in 1972
‘Macbeth’
SHAKESPEARE–400–One Katherine & one Anne are the only wives who appear in the play named for him
Henry VIII
SHAKESPEARE–800–Holding this dead daughter in his arms, King Lear says, “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low”
Cordelia
SHAKESPEARE–1200–These 2 courtiers were hired by King Claudius to spy on Hamlet
Rosencrantz
SHAKESPEARE–1600–In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this Amazon declares, “I was with Hercules and Cadmus once”
Hippolyta
SHAKESPEARE–2000–Saturninus opens this play saying, “Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms”
Titus Andronicus
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
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–400–He starred in “Coriolanus” in 1979; a few years later he was “Driving Miss Daisy”
Morgan Freeman
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
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–800–He not only starred in but also directed “Looking For Richard”, a film about “Richard III”
Al Pacino
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS–1000–Helena Bonham Carter played Olivia in the 1996 film of this comedy subtitled “Or, What You Will”
‘Twelfth Night’
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
SHAKESPEARE–0– ends with the same 7-letter word
Measure for Measure
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–200–“Two households, both alike in dignity…”
Romeo and Juliet
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–400–“When shall we three meet again”
Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–600–“Boatswain!”
The Tempest
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–800–“O for a muse of fire…”
Henry V
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST WORDS–1000–“I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night in Messina.”
Much Ado About Nothing
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–Varro, Clitus, Claudius, Strato, Lucius & Dardanius are all servants to Brutus in this play
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Edgar disguises himself as a mad beggar in this tragedy about a mad king
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–600–In “Othello”, Brabantio tells him, “Thou art a villain”; he retorts, “You are – a senator”
Iago
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–800–She tells Oberon, “I know when thou hast stolen away from fairyland…versing love to amorous Phillida”
Titania
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–In “Henry VIII”, this cardinal’s first line is “The Duke of Buckingham’s surveyor? Ha!”
Cardinal Wolsey
SHAKESPEARE–100–The full title of the play includes his title, “Prince of Denmark”
Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE–200–In “The Taming of the Shrew”, this character actually says “Kiss me, Kate”
Petruchio
SHAKESPEARE–300–This character answers to “Gloucester”, because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–700–Cleopatra speaks of these days, “when I was green in judgment”
her salad days
SHAKESPEARE–500–This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–200–“Legend of Zorro” star Banderas
Antonio
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–400–Current heartthrob actor Bloom
Orlando
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–600–Late “Can-Can” dancer Prowse
Juliet
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–800–Mahogany master Phyfe
Duncan
SHAKESPEAREAN FIRST NAMES–1000–Beauty queen Madame Rubinstein seen here
Helena
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–200–Friar Lawrence urges her to join “a sisterhood of holy nuns” but she ignores him & kills herself
Juliet
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–400–This comedy ends in Lucentio’s house, not in Petruchio’s
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–600–The last scene of this tragedy takes place in a pavillion in Titus’ garden in Rome
Titus Andronicus
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–800–This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana
Pericles
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES–3100–Shortly before he dies this king laments, “And my poor fool is hang’d!”
King Lear
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–200–“Not that I loved Caesar less”, says Brutus, “but that I loved” this city “more”
Rome
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
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–200–Scholars have long sought the identity of the “Dark Lady” who tortures Shakespeare in these poems
Sonnets
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
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–800–She says, “My only love sprung from my only hate!”
Juliet
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–400–They’re the main rivers of the 2 cities where Shakespeare spent most of his life
Avon
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE–1000–Will’s only play with “love” in the title
Love’s Labour’s Lost
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–600–Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna was born 6 months after his marriage to this woman
Anne Hathaway
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–800–Will helped his father obtain one of these, with the motto “Non Sanz Droict”, “Not Without Right”
Coat of arms
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN–1000–Perhaps written by Shakespeare himself, it ends, “Curst be he that moves my bones”
Epitaph
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–0–One of this heroine’s last lines is “Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch”
Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN–0–This heroine is murdered on the island of Cyprus, as is her waiting-woman
Desdemona (from “Othello”)
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–100–This comedy opens on a Venetian street
‘The Merchant of Venice’
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’
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
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–400–This play ends less one Moor as he dies “upon a kiss”
‘Othello’
SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE–500–After this ruler’s death, Cinna cries, “Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!”
‘Julius Caesar’
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–200–“One Severe Storm”
The Tempest
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–400–“Small Village”
Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–600–“Lots o’ Bustle Concerning Zilch”
Much Ado About Nothing
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–800–“A Subjugation for One Small Burrowing Mammal”
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS–1000–“Rialto Retailer”
The Merchant of Venice
SHAKESPEARE–100–He goes to the Capulets’ party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves – for now
Romeo
SHAKESPEARE–200–Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers
Fairies
SHAKESPEARE–300–Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–400–It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is “Scone”
‘Macbeth’
SHAKESPEARE–500–He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar’s murder
Brutus
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–200–Sir Toby’s last name in “Twelfth Night”, or what you shouldn’t do at the dinner table
Belch
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–400–Be “Lear”y of her – she poisoned her sister Regan
Goneril
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–600–“Much Ado About Nothing” features a comical constable with this “canine fruit” name
Dogberry
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
ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE–1000–An officer with the silly name of Silius shows up in the play named for these historic lovers
‘Antony
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–200–Any sap knows it was the instrument of Cleopatra’s demise
Asp (for ‘sap’)
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–400–A big “Hello To” lovers of this tragedy
‘Othello’ (for ‘Hello To’)
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–600–Ah, the “sad cries” heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!
Cressida (for ‘sad cries’)
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–800–An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear
Regan (for ‘range’)
SHAKESPEAREAN ANAGRAMS–1000–He had a “real set” of gripes with Hamlet, especially after Hamlet killed his dad
Laertes (for ‘real set’)
SHAKESPEARE–0–Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play “Julius Caesar”
“Et tu, Brute?”
SHAKESPEARE–200–The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river
Stratford-on-Avon
SHAKESPEARE–400–“The Winter’s Tale” has the memorable stage direction “Exit pursued by” this ursine beast
a bear
SHAKESPEARE–600–Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said “So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece”, it “is most certainly an artistic failure”
Hamlet
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
SHAKESPEARE–1000–One of Shakespeare’s sisters had this name, the same as Will’s wife
Anne
SHAKESPEARE–200–Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck
The Tempest
SHAKESPEARE–400–“Umabatha”, a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa
Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE–1500–Richmond exults, “The bloody dog is dead” after killing this king at Bosworth Field
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–800–In Act V of “Pericles”, this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision
Diana
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–100–“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEARE–1000–In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called “A Termagant’s Domestication”
The Taming of the Shrew
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
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–300–“Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog”
Macbeth
NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY–400–“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
Hamlet
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
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
WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER–400–An anaconda squeezing her to death in Act V wouldn’t work, so will used an asp instead
Cleopatra
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
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
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
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–400–“The Winter’s…”
Tale
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–800–“The Tragedy of Hamlet…”
Prince of Denmark
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–1200–“Pericles…”
Prince of Tyre
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–1600–“Twelfth Night, or…”
What You Will
FINISH THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE–2000–“The Third Part of King…”
Henry VI
