Shakespeare

Question 1

Hamlet

Answer 1

Genre: Tragedy

Setting: Denmark (Elsinore Castle)

Characters:
Hamlet (Lead)
Opehlia (Dame)
Claudius (Villain; H’s Uncle)
Gertrude (H’s Mom, Claudius’s Lover)
Polonius (O’s Dad)
Laertes (O’s Brother)
Horatio (H’s Friend)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamet’s “Friends”)
Ghost of Father
Yorick (Gravedigger)

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Question 2

Macbeth

Answer 2

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Scotland (Dunsinane Castle)
Characters:
- MacBeth
- Lady MacBeth (suicide after dreams of bleeding hands)
- Banquo (general, son to be king)
- MacDuff (kills Macbeth, c section)
- Duncan (king, killed by MacBeth)
- Malcolm (1st son)
- Donalbain (2nd son)
- Witches
Plot:
Other:
“double double toil and trouble” ““Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” “Stars hide your fires”

Question 3

Othello

Answer 3

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Cyprus (some Venice)
Characters:
- Othello (Main; Moorish)
- Desdemona (Dame)
- Iago (Villain)
- Rodrigo (Iago’s henchman)
- Michael Cassio (the bull)
- Amelia (Iago’s wife)

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Question 4

King Lear

Answer 4

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: England
Characters:
- Lear (Main; king)
- Cordelia (good daughter)
- Regan (evil daughter, poisoned by Goneril, married Cornwall)
- Goneril (evil daughter, suicide, married Albany)
- Duke of Kent (good guy, exiled)
- Fool
- Gloucester (eyes gouged out; sons Edmund (bad) and Edgar good, becomes king))
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Question 5

Romeo and Juliet

Answer 5

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Verona, Italy
Characters:
- Romeo Montague (Main)
- Juliet Capulet (Main)
- Tybalt Capulet (J’s cousin, killed by R)
- Benvolio Montague (R’s cousin)
- Mercutio (R’s friend, killed by Tybalt)
- Paris (J’s betrothed, killed by R)
- Friar Laurence

Plot:
Other:
“star crossed lovers” “what’s in a name?”

Question 6

Merchant of Venice

Answer 6

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Venice
Characters:
- Antonio (Merchant)
- Portia (Bachelorette, many suitors)
- Bassanio (A’s spendthrift friend, Portia’s suitor)
- Shylock (Greedy merchant; pound of flesh)
- Jessica (Shylock’s daughter, Lorenzo’s girl)
- Lorenzo (J’s boy)
Plot: Basanio chooses gold casket, Shylock loses trial against Antonio, forced to convert to Cristianity
Other:

Question 7

Julius Caesar

Answer 7

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Ancient Rome
Characters:
- Caesar
- Brutus (villain)
- Cassius (villain)
- Calpernia (JC’s wife)
- Portia (Brutus wife)
- Soothsayer (prophet)
- Other first triumvirate (Crassus, Pompey)
Plot:
Other: “beware the ides of march”

Question 8

Antony and Cleopatra

Answer 8

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Egypt/Rome
Characters:
- Mark Antony
- Cleopatra
- Other second triumvirate (Octavian, Lepidus)
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Question 9

Troilus and Cressia

Answer 9

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Troy (Trojan War)
Characters:
- Troilus (Son of Priam)
- Cressida (Son of Trojan priest siding with Greeks)
Plot: Love affair in Trojan War
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Question 10

Titus Andronicus

Answer 10

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Ancient Rome
Characters:
- Titus (Main; roman general)
- Tamora (Goth Queen)
- Saturnius (son of dead emperor)
- Lavinia (TA’s daughter)
- Aaron (the bull)
Plot:
Other: Very gory, possibly his first tragedy

Question 11

Coriolanus

Answer 11

Genre: Ancient Rome
Setting: Tragedy
Characters:
- Coriolanus
Plot: General/politician is deposed, allies with Volscians, roman coup fails, volscians kill him
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Question 12

Timon of Athens

Answer 12

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Athens
Characters:
- Timon
- Flavius (T’s chief servant)
Plot: Rich guy spends all his $$ on fake friends, goes poor, they abandon him, he lives in a cave
Other:

Question 13

Cymbeline

Answer 13

Genre: Tragedy
Setting: Ancient Britain
Characters:
- Imogen (Cymbeline’s daughter)
- Cymbeline
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Question 14

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer 14

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Greece
Characters:
- Lysander
- Demetrius
- Helena
- Hermea

• Bottom (labourer weaver, given ass’s head)
• Oberon (king of fairies)
• Titania (queen of fairies, falls for bottom)
• Robin Goodfellow (fairy who does spells, a type of fairy called puck)

Plot: Love potion chicanery
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Question 15

The Tempest

Answer 15

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Mediterranean
Characters:
- Prospero (Main; rightful duke of Milan)
- Antonio (villain, P’s brother)
- Miranda (P’s daughter)
- Caliban (monster servant)
- Ariel (Fairy servant)
- Ferdinand (son of Naples king alonso, M’s beau)
Plot:
Other:
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

Question 16

Taming of the Shrew

Answer 16

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Padua, Italy
Characters:
- Katherina (B’s sister, the shrew)
- Petruchio (K’s toxic husband)
- Bianca (good girl)
Plot: Battle of the sexes, story within a story, gaslighting/abuse
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Question 17

Twelfth Night

Answer 17

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Shipwrecked adriatic
Characters:
- Viola (in love with Duke Orsino)
- Duke Orsino
- Olivia (falls for V in drag, then S)
- Sebastian (V’s brother, goes for O)
Plot: Drag play, Both couples happy
Other:
“If music be the food of love, play on.”

Question 18

Much Ado About Nothing

Answer 18

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Messina, Sicily
Characters:
- Benedick (Beatrice’s boy)
- Beatrice (Benedick’s girl)
- Claudio (Hero’s boy)
- Hero (C’s girl)
- Don John (villain)
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Question 19

Winter’s Tale

Answer 19

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Sicily and Bohemia
Characters:
- Leontes (king of sicily, jealous husband)
- Hermione (L’s wife)
- Polixenes (king of bohemia, accused bull)
- Perdita (L’s daughter, exiled)
- Florizel (Polixenes’ son, Pedita’s lover)
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Question 20

As You Like It

Answer 20

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Ardennes
Characters:
- Rosalind (heroine)
- Celia (R’s cousin)
- Touchstone (court fool)
- Orlando (hero)
- Oliver (villain(ish); orlando’s brother)
- Duke Senior (Rosalind’s dad, exiled)
- Duke Frederick (villain(ish), Duke Sr’s usurper brother)

Plot: Plenty of mix-ups / costumes.
Other:
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

Question 21

Measure for Measure

Answer 21

Genre:
Setting: Vienna
Characters:
- Duke
- Angelo (temp duke, villain)
- Claudio (prisoner)
- Isabella (C’s sister)
Plot: Undercover boss: duke edition
Other: Play ends with duke’s proposal but no answer either way by Isabella

Question 22

All’s Well That Ends Well

Answer 22

Genre: Comedy
Setting: France
Characters:
- Helena (heroine, betrothed)
- Bertram (villain, bethrothed)
- Diana (attempted mistress)
Plot: Ring + Fetus = Marriage accepted by bertram
Other:

Question 23

Comedy of Errors

Answer 23

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Syracuse
Characters:
Plot: 2 sets of twins, mistaken
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Question 24

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Answer 24

Genre: Comedy
Setting: England
Characters:
Plot: Lads give up girls and drinking, quit, girls say yes but only if they work for a year first
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Question 25

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Answer 25

Genre: Comedy
Setting: Verona, Milan
Characters:
- Valentine (G1, wants to explore)
- Proteus (G2, wants love)
- Sylvia (V’s girl, both go for her)
- Julia (P’s og girl)
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Question 26

Merry Wives of Windsor

Answer 26

Genre: Comedy
Setting: England
Characters:
- Falstaff
Plot: Mistresses (wives) thought to be cheating, he is told to seduce them
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Question 27

King John

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Question 28

Richard III

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1.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
(5.4.8), Richard

2.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
(1.1.1-2), Richard

Question 29

Henry IV

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Question 30

Henry V

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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”

Question 31

Henry VI

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Question 32

Henry VIII

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Question 33

Pericles

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Question 34

Shakespeare Wife

Answer 34

Anne Hathaway

Question 35

Shakespeare Monarchs

Answer 35

Elizabeth I, James I

Question 36

Nickname

Answer 36

The Bard of Avon / The Bard

Question 37

Hometown / Burial

Answer 37

Stratford upon Avon

Question 38

Main Theatre

Answer 38

Globe Theatre