"Blood will have blood", says this title character, who is later told, "Be bloody, bold, & resolute"
Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed"
It is said of her, "Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician"
"Let's all sink with the king" is a line from the opening scene of this play
With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most
This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play
The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death
At the end of this play: "Why are our bodies soft & weak... but that our... hearts should well agree with our external parts?"
Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other
The prologue of this tragedy is a sonnet whose rhymes include dignity & mutiny; scene & unclean; & life & strife
The verse from the Sermon on the Mount following "Judge not, that ye be not judged" inspired this Bard comedy title
With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play
These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing
This comedy whose title aims to please says, "I charge you, o men... that between you and the women the play may please"
After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April
8-letter name shared by a tragic heroine & Uranus' innermost known moon
One of the Bard's few plays with children on stage is this one with 2 brothers who last appear alive in Act III, Scene i
This 5-letter name appears 7 times in Shakespeare titles, more than any other name
Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this
The last speech in this play says, "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous"
The only 2 plays whose titles repeat a word, excluding articles & prepositions, are "Measure for Measure" & this
One of the 2 plays whose plots are set in motion by shipwrecks, one off Illyria & one off an unnamed island
These 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns
It's not one of the Bard's better-known comedy titles, but has the distinction of containing the most apostrophes
The name of this royal daughter from a tragedy is from a word meaning "little king"
Though he reigned for only 2 years, this king has the second-longest role in a single Shakespeare play, speaking 1,164 lines
The last words spoken by this character are "What's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed"
This character is described as "a howling monster", "a most scurvy monster" & "some monster of the isle"
To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section
In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables"
Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play "Julius Caesar"
A knight in "Henry VI, Part I" who flees battle to save his life is an early version of this great character
2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage
Hamlet tells this man that Yorick was "a fellow of infinite jest"
Shakespeare's only play named for a Tudor monarch
One of this heroine's last lines is "Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch"
This heroine is murdered on the island of Cyprus, as is her waiting-woman
At the end of "Macbeth", he tells his thanes they will "henceforth be Earls, the first" ever in Scotland
Shakespeare's 2 plays with "King" in the title & no numbers following
The most recent British monarch who's the title character of a Shakespeare play
A poignant scene in "The Madness of King George" features George III reading aloud from this play
Ajax, Achilles & Agamemnon are all characters in this play
Berlioz based his last opera, "Beatrice et Benedict", on this Shakespeare play
The play in which Edward, Prince of Wales says, "I do not like the tower, of any place"
Sir William Catesby's last line in this play is "Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse"
The 2 female title characters in Shakespearean tragedies who die by their own hand
The 2 leading female characters in this play are the marriageable Minola sisters
The 3 characters who die in the last scene of "Romeo and Juliet" are Romeo, Juliet & this person
In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day"
In "Hamlet", this character says, "The apparel oft proclaims the man"