Shakespearean Literature Trivia Questions
Total Questions: 8
In which Shakespearean play does Emilia tell a character, 'I will play the swan, and die in music'?
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othello
In Macbeth, what weapon does the protagonist see before him with the handle toward his hand?
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dagger
Which Shakespearean character's dying words are 'Lay on Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'?
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macbeth
In Act 2, Scene 3 of Antony & Cleopatra, the soothsayer warns Antony to leave which city?
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rome
Which Shakespearean king's fool tells him, 'I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing'?
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king lear
Which Shakespearean play is described by Collier's as the most quoted and spans almost 8 pages in Bartlett's?
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hamlet
In Shakespeare's work, Macbeth refers to what as 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing'?
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life
Katharine Hepburn played Beatrice to Alfred Drake's Benedick in a 1957 staging of which Shakespearean comedy?
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much ado about nothing
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