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This uncle of Hamlet murders Hamlet's father and remarries his mother; he later plots to murder Hamlet
Claudius
Fortinbas
Polonius
Yorick
Hamlet's mother who believes her son has gone crazy because of his "antic disposition"
Gertrude
Ophelia
Ariel
Miranda
This talkative Lord Chamberlain is killed while hiding behind an arras spying on Hamlet. He gives his son Laertes the advice to "neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Polonius
Rosencrantz
Osric
Yorick
This minor prince of Norway arrives and takes up the kingship because almost everyone else is dead in Hamlet
Yorick
Hamlet
Horatio
Fortinbras
"There are more things in heaven and Earth" than are dreamt of in this character's philosophy; he is the right-hand man of Hamlet
Fortinbras
Laertes
Claudius
Horatio
Where is Hamlet set?
Verona
Venice
Denmark
Sicily
This play dramatizes the revenge the prince exacts on his uncle for murdering the king , who is the prince's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife the old king's widow: the prince's mother.
Hamlet
Macbeth
Merry Wives of Windsor
Winter's Tale
This is Shakespeares longest play
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
All's Well that Ends Well
In a play within a play called The Murder of Gonzago, this character's guilt is proven.
Claudius
Macbeth
Duke Orzino
Fortinbras
This character is mortally wounded when he tries to kill Hamlet, but accidentally switches the fencing blades.
Laertes
Claudius
Duncan
Horatio
This play is known for "To be, or not to be: that is the question ... "
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Tempest
According to superstition, it is unlucky to say the name of this play in a theater.
Hamlet
Macbeth
The Tempest
All's Well That Ends Well
This ancestor of King James is initially a friend of Macbeth, but he is murdered on Macbeth's orders after Macbeth becomes suspicious of him
Duncan
MacDuff
Malcolm
Banquo
Because Macbeth becomes suspicious of this other general, he has the general's family murdered. This general ultimately beheads Macbeth in single combat.
Banquo
Macduff
Horatio
Malcolm
This son of King Duncan is eventually proclaimed king at the end of "Macbeth".
MacBeth
MacDuff
Malcolm
Banquo
In this play, a man is consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, he murders the King and takes the throne for himself. Wracked by guilt and paranoia, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion.
Macbeth
King Lear
As You Like It
Measure for Measure
What play is this from - "Is this a dagger which I see before me ... "
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
The Tempest
Although King Lear calls her a "thankless child" because she refuses to flatter him, this daughter loves him the most
Goneril
Cordelia
Regan
Ariel
Who is the evil son of the Earl of Gloucester, the adviser to King Lear?
Edgar
Edmund
Edward
Eduardo
What play says, "Nothing will come of nothing"?
King Lear
Measure for Measure
Hamlet
Othello
At the end of King Lear, who is still alive?
Goneril
Regan
Cordelia
Edgar
This villain, jealous that Othello was promoted over him, decides to frame Othello's wife Desdemona
Iago
Lawrence
Roderigo
Cassio
Who kills Desdemona, the wife of Othello?
Othello
Roderigo
Cassio
Iago
What Play is this from, “O, beware, my lord of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock
the meat it feeds on.”
Othello
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
This is the ruler of Athens who initially tells Hermia she must marry Demetrius but who later decides she can marry Lysander, whom she really loves. (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Duke Orcino
Duke Theseus
Nick Bottom
Pyramus
This conquered queen of the Amazons is set to marry Duke Theseus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Titania
Hippolyta
Thisbe
Miranda
What is the other name of Puck, the mischievous meddling sprite who serves Oberon. He says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be."
Nick Bottom
Robin Goodfellow
Horatio
Hotspur
This weaver plays the part of Pyramus in the rude mechanicals' play "Pyramus and Thisbe." He is given the head of an ass by Puck.
Robin Goodfellow
Nick Bottom
Frederick
Thomas Lodge
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, risking execution, because of her love for this man, who she plans to elope with in the woods.
Lysander
Nick Bottom
Theseus
Robin Goodfellow
This forest is largely the setting for Shakespeare's "As You Like It."
Forest of Arden
Teutoburg Forest
Blackforest
Sherwood Forest
A Duke (who's never given a proper name) is unseated from his Duchy, whereupon he moves to the forest for a while until the Duke's traitorous son is saved from a lioness by the Duke's loyal servant, which leads to no fewer than four weddings, and the Duke's return to Dukeness
All's Well That Ends Well
As you Like It
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Measure for Measure
This daughter of Frederick in "As You Like It" falls in love with and marries Orlando.
Rosalind
Ariel
Miranda
Rosaline
This jester in "As You Like It" gives the "Seven Ages of Man" speech beginning, "All the world's a stage."
Jacques
Puck
Charles
Frederick
Elizabeth I supposedly wanted to see "Sir John Falstaff in love," so Shakespeare wrote this play to grant her request.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Winters Tale
As You Like It
Measure for Measure
In his play Angelo condemns young Claudio to death for getting his (Claudio's) fiancée pregnant, but then Angelo, in a stirringly honorable turn, agrees to spare Claudio's life if Angelo can engage in some fornication of his own with Claudio's hot sister.
Measure for Measure
As You Like It
All's Well That Ends Well
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Three men who've just sworn off girls happen across three attendants to a beautiful princess, and sure enough they forget their swears.
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure For Measure
The Comedy of Errors
As You Like It
Shakespeare's shortest play: Egeon almost loses his life, his wife, and his children—but then doesn't.
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure For Measure
The Comedy of Errors
As You Like It
This is Shakespeare's last play
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure For Measure
The Comedy of Errors
The Tempest
This daughter of Prospero is amazed at all the people on the island, having only seen one other human—her father—up to then. She says, "O brave new world, / That has such people in't."
Miranda
Rosalind
Ariel
Desdemona
This airy spirit is Prospero's magical helper, causing the title tempest that shipwrecks Prospero's rivals.
Miranda
Rosalind
Ariel
Desdemona
The son of the defeated witch Sycorax, this is the monstrous creature forced to serve Prospero.
Caliban
Falstaff
Ferdinand
Cassio
Name the Play "Antonio borrows money for an shipping expedition, the security being "a pound of flesh." A woman, wooed by many, asks each suitor to choose among caskets of gold, silver, and lead for permission to marry her; Bassanio correctly chooses the leaden one."
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of The Shrew
Winter's Tale
Two young nobles find love, although in this case it's after a discomforting, pathos-ridden scene in which one of the purported "noblemen" attempts to rape the character Silvia.
Coriolanus
Winter's Tale
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
This play is an interpretation of The Knight's Tale, including the fight between Arcite and Palamon.
Two Noble Kinsmen
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
All's Well That Ends Well
Comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Twelfth Night
Titus Andronicus
Winter's Tale
All's Well That Ends Well
Which play features Helena, the woman who wins Bertram as her husband, obtaining his ring through a trick?
All's Well That Ends Well
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
As You Like It
This play revolves among the mistaken identities between the two sets of twins and their servants.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Comedy Of Errors
Winter's Tale
All's Well That Ends Well
In this play, one character calls himself “Tom O’Bedlam” after being robbed of his birthright. The King of France marries a character in this play despite her being disinherited. Another character in this play tries to commit suicide, but his son Edgar saves him by leading him off an imaginary cliff.
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Coriolanus
At the end of this play, the title character starts a speech with the line “Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow”, and calls her husband “thy lord, thy life, thy keeper.” Gremio and Lucentio are suitors in this play, and its plot is spurred by Baptista.
The Taming of the Shrew
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Coriolanus
One character in this play commands "Out, vile jelly," in reference to a character that says, “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.”
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Coriolanus
I’m this play, the protagonist were born at Epidamnum, and were raised separately by Aemilia and Aegeon following a storm. The centerpiece of this play's plot was Solinus' extension regarding a thousand-mark fine or execution.
The Taming of the Shrew
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
A character in this play mourns how his mother had “followed my poor father’s body Like Niobe” before remarking, “frailty, thy name is woman.” The central character swaps execution letters before entering England, leading to the deaths of two friends from Wittenberg.
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
The Tempest
Benedick, Claudio and Don Pedro arrive at Leonato's house in Messina. Beatrice and Benedick bicker with each other and Claudio, a soldier, falls in love with Leonato's daughter, Hero. Don John, who is Don Pedro's evil half-brother, tricks Claudio into believing that he has seen Hero being unfaithful. Hero turns out to be Antonio’s Daughter.
Measure for Measure
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
Who is the Shrew to be tamed in The Taming of the Shrew?
Bianca
Katherina
Rosalind
Viola
Who is the ruler of Illyria in the Twelfth Night?
Duke Orsino
Duke Frederick
Lysander
The Earl of Gloucester
Which Shakespearean play's main characters include the Duke, Isabella, Claudio, Angelo, and Mariana?
Measure for Measure
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
Mistress Page and Mistress _________ tease Sir Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor.
Plant
Ford
Emilia
Nym
In what play will you find Don John and Balthasar?
Coriolanus
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
Which Shakespearean play's main characters include Leontes, Hermione, Perdita, Polixenes, and Florizel?
Coriolanus
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Winter's Tale
What is Viola's brother's name in The Twelfth Night?
Orsino
Sebastian
Malvolio
Toby
