| Joss Whedon directed a movie version of this comedy with quarreling lovers Beatrice & Benedick |
<i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> |
200 |
May 8, 2014 |
| This "Tempest" character is described as "savage and deformed" |
Caliban |
400 |
May 8, 2014 |
| Most of "Othello" is set on this island |
Cyprus |
600 |
May 8, 2014 |
| I'm talkin' Shakespeare, Claudio & Isabella...talkin' Pompey...Lucio & the Duke, say hey! to this play |
<i>Measure for Measure</i> |
800 |
May 8, 2014 |
| Aptly, this name of the long-lost daughter in "The Winter's Tale" is from the Latin for "Lost" |
Perdita |
1000 |
May 8, 2014 |
| Shakespeare wrote a spoiler in the prologue of this play: "a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life" |
<i>Romeo and Juliet</i> |
200 |
February 28, 2013 |
| This play is set in part in Padua, home to a single girl named Katherina |
<i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> |
400 |
February 28, 2013 |
| Prince Hal says to him, "thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack" |
Falstaff |
600 |
February 28, 2013 |
| The hilarity of this Shakespeare play involves 2 sets of twin brothers & lots of mistaken identity |
<i>The Comedy of Errors</i> |
800 |
February 28, 2013 |
| Her dad Brabantio dies of grief over her marriage to Othello |
Desdemona |
1000 |
February 28, 2013 |
| For most of Shakespeare's life, this monarch ruled England |
Queen Elizabeth I |
200 |
July 26, 2012 |
| Will paid part of the cost of building this theater that opened in late 1599 |
the Globe |
400 |
July 26, 2012 |
| Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays |
the First Folio |
800 |
July 26, 2012 |
| Whether play or poem, blank verse or rhymed, the majority of Shakespeare's works are written in this meter |
iambic pentameter |
1000 |
July 26, 2012 |
| Shakespeare's 37 plays are traditionally classified into 3 groups: comedies, tragedies & these |
histories |
|
July 26, 2012 |
| Desdemona's lady-in-waiting is Emilia, this man's wife |
Iago |
200 |
May 14, 2008 |
| Much of Act V of this play is set at Dunsinane Castle |
<i>Macbeth</i> |
400 |
May 14, 2008 |
| A shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola & Sebastian in this comedy |
<i>Twelfth Night</i> |
600 |
May 14, 2008 |
| Most of "Hamlet" is set in this Danish seaport |
Elsinore |
800 |
May 14, 2008 |
| He's described as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" |
Marc Antony |
1000 |
May 14, 2008 |
| This title queen uses an asp, a "poor venomous fool", to kill herself |
Cleopatra |
200 |
October 18, 2007 |
| This moneylender asks, "Hates any man the thing he would not kill?" |
Shylock |
400 |
October 18, 2007 |
| He uses the word "assassination" for what he plans to do to Duncan |
Macbeth |
600 |
October 18, 2007 |
| Women in this king's play included Katharine, wife to the king, later divorced, & Anne, maid of honor, later queen |
<i>Henry VIII</i> |
800 |
October 18, 2007 |
| Characters in this play include the charming Rosalind & the sardonic Jaques |
<i>As You Like It</i> |
1000 |
October 18, 2007 |
| She cleverly disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio from Shylock's revenge |
Portia |
200 |
July 5, 2006 |
| Laertes tells her, "For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor" are "not permanent, sweet, not lasting" |
Ophelia |
400 |
July 5, 2006 |
| He's the storm-raising Duke of "The Tempest" |
Prospero |
600 |
July 5, 2006 |
| 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 |
800 |
July 5, 2006 |
| "Pandosto: The Triumph of Time" was the source for this "Tale" of romance |
<i>The Winter\'s Tale</i> |
1000 |
July 5, 2006 |
| Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in this comedy |
<i>A Midsummer Night\'s Dream</i> |
200 |
June 13, 2006 |
| 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 |
400 |
June 13, 2006 |
| 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 |
600 |
June 13, 2006 |
| Comedy in which Benedick says Beatrice exceeds Hero "in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December" |
<i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> |
800 |
June 13, 2006 |
| Quite an eyeful, he's the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo |
Paris |
1000 |
June 13, 2006 |
| The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river |
Stratford-on-Avon |
200 |
March 16, 2006 |
| "The Winter's Tale" has the memorable stage direction "Exit pursued by" this ursine beast |
a bear |
400 |
March 16, 2006 |
| Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said "So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece", it "is most certainly an artistic failure" |
<i>Hamlet</i> |
600 |
March 16, 2006 |
| 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 |
800 |
March 16, 2006 |
| One of Shakespeare's sisters had this name, the same as Will's wife |
Anne |
1000 |
March 16, 2006 |
| The name of this play refers to a violent windstorm |
<i>The Tempest</i> |
200 |
October 13, 2003 |
| Play in which Iago says, "In sleep I heard him say, 'Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves!'" |
<i>Othello</i> |
400 |
October 13, 2003 |
| Before disinheriting Cordelia, this man warns her, "Nothing will come of nothing" |
King Lear |
600 |
October 13, 2003 |
| Valentine & his friend Proteus are the title characters of this play |
<i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i> |
1000 |
October 13, 2003 |
| The fair Bianca has an older, somewhat unpleasant sister named Katherine in this play |
<i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> |
|
October 13, 2003 |
| His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona |
Iago |
200 |
November 18, 2002 |
| Cicero & Publius are senators in this tragedy |
<i>Julius Caesar</i> |
400 |
November 18, 2002 |
| It's the name of Romeo's family |
Montague |
600 |
November 18, 2002 |
| Completes Dick the Butcher's "The first thing we do, let's..." |
kill all the lawyers |
1000 |
November 18, 2002 |
| King Claudius commissions these 2 minor characters, Hamlet's schoolmates, to spy on Hamlet |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
|
November 18, 2002 |
| Disguised as a lawyer, Portia foils Shylock's plan to collect a pound of flesh in this play |
"The Merchant of Venice" |
100 |
February 8, 2000 |
| This character who loved Cressida was a prince of Troy |
Troilus |
200 |
February 8, 2000 |
| In Act I of this play, Cordelia says, "What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent" |
"King Lear" |
300 |
February 8, 2000 |
| Shakespeare laid the scene of this tragedy in "Fair Verona" |
"Romeo and Juliet" |
400 |
February 8, 2000 |
| "'Tis incredible to believe how much she loves me. O the kindest Kate!" Petruchio says in this play |
"The Taming of the Shrew" |
500 |
February 8, 2000 |
| He goes to the Capulets' party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves -- for now |
Romeo |
100 |
September 18, 1998 |
| Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers |
Fairies |
200 |
September 18, 1998 |
| Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes |
Richard III |
300 |
September 18, 1998 |
| It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is "Scone" |
"Macbeth" |
400 |
September 18, 1998 |
| He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar's murder |
Brutus |
500 |
September 18, 1998 |
| A cute dog named Crab appears in the comedy about "The Two Gentlemen of" this city |
Verona |
100 |
July 2, 1998 |
| In 1964 Diana Rigg appeared as Adriana in "The Comedy of Errors" & Cordelia in this tragedy |
"King Lear" |
200 |
July 2, 1998 |
| The play in which Portia says, "I never did repent for doing good, nor shall not now" |
"The Merchant of Venice" |
300 |
July 2, 1998 |
| "Friendly Shakespeare" calls this comedy about gleeful spouses "An Elizabethan I Love Lucy" |
"Merry Wives of Windsor" |
400 |
July 2, 1998 |
| Vincentio, duke of this Austrian city, is the first character to speak in "Measure for Measure" |
Vienna |
500 |
July 2, 1998 |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" includes the line "The course of" this "never did run smooth" |
True love |
100 |
December 10, 1997 |
| To be sure, one of his soliloquies begins, "How all occasions do inform against me" |
Hamlet |
200 |
December 10, 1997 |
| She persuades her husband to kill Duncan |
Lady Macbeth |
300 |
December 10, 1997 |
| In this play Gratiano has the last speech; Portia has the next to last |
"The Merchant of Venice" |
400 |
December 10, 1997 |
| The 1995 film of this play includes the following: |
<i>Othello</i> |
|
December 10, 1997 |
| Friar Lawrence laments that this pair's "stol'n marriage day was Tybalt's doomsday" |
Romeo and Juliet |
100 |
April 25, 1997 |
| "She has light by her continually, 'tis her command", & she sleepwalks carrying a taper |
Lady Macbeth |
200 |
April 25, 1997 |
| Act I, scene 1 of this play is set in front of Priam's palace in Troy |
"Troilus and Cressida" |
400 |
April 25, 1997 |
| After stabbing him, Hamlet cries, "This incestuous, murderous, damned Dane...follow my mother" |
Claudius |
500 |
April 25, 1997 |
| Some scholars think this bawdy comedy was based on a ballad, "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife..." |
<i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> |
|
April 25, 1997 |
| "Measure for Measure" takes place in this Austrian capital, portrayed as a swamp of immorality |
Vienna |
100 |
October 29, 1996 |
| It begins with an "induction" in which a drunken tinker sits down to watch the tale of Kate & Petruchio |
"The Taming of the Shrew" |
200 |
October 29, 1996 |
| This play that takes place in Rome in 44 B.C. was first performed in 1599 |
"Julius Caesar" |
300 |
October 29, 1996 |
| Escalus, Prince of Verona presides over the reconciliation of these 2 families where their children lie dead |
the Montagues & the Capulets |
400 |
October 29, 1996 |
| This queen of Denmark dies after drinking poison prepared for Hamlet by Claudius |
Gertrude |
500 |
October 29, 1996 |
| Juliet cries out, "O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!" when she learns this man has killed Tybalt |
Romeo |
100 |
October 2, 1995 |
| The ghost tells him, "I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night..." |
Hamlet |
200 |
October 2, 1995 |
| In 1994 director Peter Sellars set this play in Venice, California instead of Venice, Italy |
<i>The Merchant of Venice</i> |
300 |
October 2, 1995 |
| The man who says, "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me" |
Marc Antony |
400 |
October 2, 1995 |
| Acts I & II of Henry V are set mostly in England; the rest of the play unfolds in this country |
France |
500 |
October 2, 1995 |
| In 1600 the first published edition of this comedy spelled the title word "Ado" Adoe |
<i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> |
100 |
March 14, 1995 |
| Enobarbus says Antony won't leave her because "Age cannot wither her, not custom stale her infinite variety" |
Cleopatra |
200 |
March 14, 1995 |
| This woman tells her husband, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters" |
Lady Macbeth |
300 |
March 14, 1995 |
| The play "Cymbeline" gave us the song that says, "Hark! Hark!" this bird "at heaven's gate sings" |
a lark |
400 |
March 14, 1995 |
| In this play Mercutio says, "A plague o' both your houses!" 3 times before he dies |
<i>Romeo and Juliet</i> |
|
March 14, 1995 |
| This play's famous balcony scene takes place in a garden after a ball |
<i>Romeo and Juliet</i> |
100 |
February 16, 1995 |
| The queen who says, "Go tell him I have slain myself; say that the last I spoke was 'Antony'" |
Cleopatra |
200 |
February 16, 1995 |
| This title character says, "Iago is most honest"--what a mistake |
Othello |
300 |
February 16, 1995 |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern don't appear in this play until Act II, scene II |
<i>Hamlet</i> |
400 |
February 16, 1995 |
| Ovid's "Metamorphoses" inspired the play-within-a-play about Pyramus & Thisbe in this comedy |
<i>A Midsummer Night\'s Dream</i> |
500 |
February 16, 1995 |
| "Hamlet" opens at Elsinore castle, where a sentinel notes not a creature is stirring, not even this one |
a mouse |
100 |
May 13, 1992 |
| In "The Merchant of Venice", Portia says, "The quality of" this "is not strained" |
mercy |
200 |
May 13, 1992 |
| In the famous balcony scene, this is the part of Juliet's face Romeo wishes he "might touch" |
her cheek |
300 |
May 13, 1992 |
| In "Henry IV, Part 2", the hostess wants him arrested for eating her "out of house and home" |
Falstaff |
400 |
May 13, 1992 |
| The dowry he got with Katharina was, after Baptista's death, half his lands & 20,000 crowns |
Petruchio |
|
May 13, 1992 |
| She says "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; thou art thyself, though not a Montague" |
Juliet |
100 |
December 12, 1991 |
| Richard III asks this saint to "inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons" |
St. George |
200 |
December 12, 1991 |
| In this play, Falstaff disguises himself as a Windsor stag, "the fattest... i' the forest" |
<i>Merry Wives of Windsor</i> |
300 |
December 12, 1991 |
| Hamlet says of her, "A beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn'd longer" |
Gertrude |
400 |
December 12, 1991 |
| This historical play about a Tudor king may have been co-written by John Fletcher |
<i>Henry VIII</i> |
500 |
December 12, 1991 |
| These lovers do "with their death bury their parents' strife" |
Romeo and Juliet |
100 |
November 13, 1991 |
| The play in which Emilia screams, "The moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! Murder!" |
<i>Othello</i> |
200 |
November 13, 1991 |
| In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio |
<i>Hamlet</i> |
300 |
November 13, 1991 |
| In "The Merchant of Venice" he tells his friend Tubal, "Meet me at our synagogue" |
Shylock |
400 |
November 13, 1991 |
| In "King Lear", she poisons her sister Regan, then stabs herself |
Goneril |
|
November 13, 1991 |
| The full title of the play includes his title, "Prince of Denmark" |
<i>Hamlet</i> |
100 |
November 14, 1990 |
| In "The Taming of the Shrew", this character actually says "Kiss me, Kate" |
Petruchio |
200 |
November 14, 1990 |
| This character answers to "Gloucester", because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king |
Richard III |
300 |
November 14, 1990 |
| This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs |
King Lear |
500 |
November 14, 1990 |
| Cleopatra speaks of these days, "when I was green in judgment" |
her salad days |
|
November 14, 1990 |
| This Welsh star played Hamlet on Broadway in 1964, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth |
Richard Burton |
100 |
January 16, 1990 |
| The epilogue to this play says, "The king's a beggar now the play is done. All is well ended..." |
<i>All\'s Well That Ends Well</i> |
200 |
January 16, 1990 |
| The 1st season mentioned in this play is summer, but it has another season in its title |
<i>The Winter\'s Tale</i> |
300 |
January 16, 1990 |
| The play in which Emilia says jealousy is "a monster begot upon itself, born on itself" |
<i>Othello</i> |
400 |
January 16, 1990 |
| "Scone", the last word in this play, refers to a coronation site, not a biscuit |
<i>Macbeth</i> |
500 |
January 16, 1990 |
| Shakespeare anglicized the name of this feuding family from the Italian Capeletti |
the Capulets |
100 |
March 21, 1989 |
| His last lines were "Caesar, now be still: I killed not thee with half so good a will" |
Brutus |
200 |
March 21, 1989 |
| Shakespeare's saga of Kate & Petruchio, it inspired a ballet with the same title |
<i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> |
300 |
March 21, 1989 |
| There's a page named Moth in "Love's Labour's Lost" & a fairy named Moth in this play |
<i>A Midsummer Night\'s Dream</i> |
400 |
March 21, 1989 |
| At the end of "Macbeth", he invites everyone to see him crowned at Scone |
Malcolm |
500 |
March 21, 1989 |
| According to Shakespeare, this queen liked to play billiards with her eunuch |
Cleopatra |
100 |
December 22, 1988 |
| This fun couple lived in a castle in Inverness |
Macbeth & Lady Macbeth |
200 |
December 22, 1988 |
| In "Romeo & Juliet", it's the occupation of John & Lawrence |
priests (friars) |
300 |
December 22, 1988 |
| It's how Hamlet finds out his father was murdered |
(father\'s) ghost |
400 |
December 22, 1988 |
| Characters in this comedy include Shallow, Simple, Slender & Falstaff |
<i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> |
500 |
December 22, 1988 |
| Shakespeare wrote that this Roman "doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus" |
Julius Caesar |
100 |
March 28, 1988 |
| Of Desdemona, Iago or himself, the one Othello doesn't kill |
Iago |
200 |
March 28, 1988 |
| The only Shakespearean play with "love" in its title |
<i>Love\'s Labour\'s Lost</i> |
300 |
March 28, 1988 |
| This play inspired an early 20th c. poetic drama "Caliban by the Yellow Sands" |
<i>The Tempest</i> |
500 |
March 28, 1988 |
| In Richard Burton's 1964 "Hamlet", former Hamlet John Gielgud was heard but not seen in this role |
the ghost of Hamlet\'s father |
|
March 28, 1988 |
| Lancelot Gobbo was his servant; Jessica, his daughter; & Venice, his home |
Shylock |
200 |
January 4, 1988 |
| Prince Hal called him "fat-witted with drinking of old sack" |
Falstaff |
300 |
January 4, 1988 |
| Hamlet's suggestion to Ophelia which continues with "...why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" |
"Get thee to a nunnery:" |
400 |
January 4, 1988 |
| To perform "Twelfth Night" on Twelfth Night you'd have to do it during this month |
January |
500 |
January 4, 1988 |
| âSweets to the sweet: Farewell!â were Hamlet's mother's words at this woman's funeral |
Ophelia |
100 |
November 13, 1985 |
| Part of Cassius' anatomy Brutus calls âitchingâ when accusing him of greed |
palm |
200 |
November 13, 1985 |
| âOther women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfiesâ |
Cleopatra |
300 |
November 13, 1985 |
| Susanna & the twins, Hamnet & Judith |
Shakespeare\'s children |
400 |
November 13, 1985 |
| The lines "And thereby hangs a tale" & "All the world's a stage" come from this comedy |
<i>As You Like It</i> |
500 |
November 13, 1985 |
| Shakespeare described them as "a pair of star-crossed lovers" |
Romeo & Juliet |
100 |
October 23, 1985 |
| Title character who said, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" |
Hamlet |
200 |
October 23, 1985 |
| "Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war", he said, angered at the murder of Caesar |
Marc Antony |
300 |
October 23, 1985 |
| Shakespeare's acting company, or '60s rock group noted for "Louie Louie" |
The Kingsmen |
400 |
October 23, 1985 |
| American Shakespeare Festival Theater is in Stratford "on Housatonic", a river in this state |
Connecticut |
500 |
October 23, 1985 |