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Shakespearean Literature Trivia Questions

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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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