A long dramatic speech delivered by a single character in a play. It is a vocalization of the character’s thoughts.

A device often used in drama when a character speaks to him- or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections.

A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

An opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

A person who actively opposes or is hostile toward the main character.

The way poetry and lyrics are written. It is broken into stanzas.

All of the movies below were adapted from Shakespeare plays except

Like many artists, Shakespeare was not financially or critically successful in his own time, but only after death.

All the world’s a stage

Love is blind

Neither a borrower

Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

To be, or not to be:

Things without remedy should be without regard;

The course of true love

O Romeo, Romeo!

What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet…"

"By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes."

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on."

“What’s done cannot be undone.”

“The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones.”

"To be, or not to be, that is the question…"