Shakespeare Plays Trivia
Show off your inner Bard—if you can juggle spirits, schemers, and star-crossed lovers, you might just be Shakespeare’s top stagehand.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Who wrote the undelivered letter meant to tell Romeo about Juliet’s sleeping-potion plan?
Friar Lawrence
In Hamlet’s Act 5 graveyard scene, when Hamlet reflects on “poor Yorick,” what was Yorick’s role at the royal court?
Jester
In a sleepwalking scene observed by a doctor and gentlewoman, Who cries, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” while scrubbing imaginary blood from her hands?
Lady Macbeth
In the prank-filled comedy where a forged love letter humiliates him, Malvolio is the puritanical steward to which noblewoman?
Olivia
Who portrayed Kate (Katharina) in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1967 film The Taming of the Shrew?
Elizabeth Taylor