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Loading...How many plays did Shakespeare write?
medium37 (some scholars count 38-39)
What are Shakespeare's four types of plays?
mediumComedies, tragedies, histories, and romances (late plays)
Name Shakespeare's four great tragedies.
mediumHamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Which Shakespeare play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
easyRomeo and Juliet (a tragedy about feuding families in Verona)
Which play features a prince who sees his father's ghost?
easyHamlet
Which play features three witches and a Scottish king who murders for power?
easyMacbeth
Often called 'The Scottish Play'
Which comedy features fairy magic and lovers lost in a forest?
easyA Midsummer Night's Dream
Which play features Prospero, a magician on an island?
mediumThe Tempest
Which history play dramatizes the assassination of a Roman leader?
easyJulius Caesar
Which comedy involves mistaken identity with twins?
mediumTwelfth Night (also The Comedy of Errors)
Who is Hamlet's uncle who killed Hamlet's father?
mediumClaudius
Who is the Moor of Venice in Shakespeare's tragedy?
easyOthello
Who manipulates Othello into jealousy?
mediumIago
Who says 'Et tu, Brute?' before dying?
easyJulius Caesar
Who is the fairy king in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
mediumOberon
Who is Puck (Robin Goodfellow)?
mediumA mischievous fairy servant of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Who delivers the 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' speech?
mediumMark Antony (in Julius Caesar)
Who is Lady Macbeth?
easyMacbeth's ambitious wife who encourages him to murder King Duncan
Which play contains 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
easyHamlet
Which play contains 'All that glitters is not gold'?
hardThe Merchant of Venice
Which play contains 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'?
easyRomeo and Juliet
Which play contains 'The course of true love never did run smooth'?
mediumA Midsummer Night's Dream
Which play contains 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'?
hardAs You Like It
Which character says 'Out, damned spot!'?
easyLady Macbeth
What is a central theme of Romeo and Juliet?
easyThe destructive power of feuds and the intensity of young love
What is the central theme of Macbeth?
mediumUnchecked ambition leads to destruction; guilt and consequences of evil
What is a central theme of Hamlet?
mediumThe moral complexity of revenge, the nature of death, and the difficulty of action vs. inaction
What is a common theme in Shakespeare's comedies?
mediumMistaken identity, love overcoming obstacles, and the restoration of social order
What does Shakespeare often explore about power and kingship?
hardThe burden of leadership, the corrupting influence of power, and the legitimacy of rule
When did Shakespeare live?
easy1564-1616 (Elizabethan and Jacobean England)
What was Shakespeare's theater called?
easyThe Globe Theatre
Who was the reigning monarch during most of Shakespeare's career?
mediumQueen Elizabeth I (later King James I)
Where was Shakespeare born?
easyStratford-upon-Avon, England
What is iambic pentameter?
mediumA rhythmic pattern of five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables per line (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM)
What is a soliloquy?
mediumA speech where a character speaks their thoughts aloud while alone on stage
What is blank verse?
hardUnrhymed iambic pentameter — Shakespeare's primary verse form