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Hamlet 92 Macbeth 72 Othello 68 King Lear 63 Romeo and Juliet 60 The Tempest 55 Richard III 51 A Midsummer Night's Dream 46 Julius Caesar 45 The Taming of the Shrew 45 The Merchant of Venice 39 Cleopatra 33 Iago 32 Juliet 29 Romeo 28 Twelfth Night 27 The Merry Wives of Windsor 24 Much Ado About Nothing 24 Troilus and Cressida 24 Sir John Falstaff 24 Lady Macbeth 22 As You Like It 21 Titus Andronicus 20 Henry V 19 Prospero 18 Ophelia 18 Portia 17 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 17 Desdemona 16 Shylock 15 Petruchio 15 Antony and Cleopatra 14 Verona 13 Brutus 13 The Comedy of Errors 13 The Winter's Tale 12 Puck 11 Cordelia 11 Timon of Athens 9 Love's Labour's Lost 9 Gertrude 9 Cressida 9 Henry VIII 8 All's Well That Ends Well 8 Marc Antony 8

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Hamlet 92x 8.9% stumper $570 avg J:38 DJ:52 FJ:2

J $400 1998 "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

J $600 2020 "The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England" (& a few words later, he's correct)

J $1,000 DD 2009 "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't"

Macbeth 72x 9.9% stumper $666 avg J:23 DJ:48 FJ:1

J $100 2001 This one's about a wannabe Scottish king & his wife, right, & he kills King Duncan... is Connery available?

J $500 1990 "Scone", the last word in this play, refers to a coronation site, not a biscuit

DJ $1,000 DD 2012 Bad stuff will go down when guys are named 1, 2 & 3 murderer, as Fleance & his dad discover in this play

Othello 68x 11.9% stumper $724 avg J:29 DJ:38 FJ:1

J $200 2018 "Desdemona! Che Veggo!"

DJ $500 DD 1998 Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet

J $1,000 2016 Jealousy is a b--no, no, a monster, got it--"That cuckold lives in bliss who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger"

King Lear 63x 6.6% stumper $854 avg J:22 DJ:39 FJ:2

J $200 2022 Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm"

J $600 2024 This play was re-imagined in "A Thousand Acres", a Midwest tale in which one of 3 sisters is cut out of their dad's will

J $1,000 2018 Including the duke of Cornwall, many end up dead in this royal play, by poison, suicide, hanging & causes unknown

Romeo and Juliet 60x 3.4% stumper $478 avg J:22 DJ:37 FJ:1

J $100 1997 Friar Lawrence laments that this pair's "stol'n marriage day was Tybalt's doomsday"

J $600 2011 Second Capulet, Act I, Scene v:"His son is thirty"

J $1,000 2001 Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt

The Tempest 55x 9.4% stumper $860 avg J:18 DJ:35 FJ:2

J $200 2018 "Shake it off. Come on, we'll visit Caliban my slave, who never yields us kind answer"

J $500 1988 This play inspired an early 20th c. poetic drama "Caliban by the Yellow Sands"

DJ $1,000 DD 2014 "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails"

Richard III 51x 19.1% stumper $1,102 avg J:15 DJ:32 FJ:4

DJ $200 1988 This king's last words were "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

J $500 1988 The Duchess of York, the Lieutenant of the Tower, &the ghosts of the title character's victims

J $1,000 2007 The Duke's been stabbed, then drowned in a barrel of wine; looks like the drinks... are on him

A Midsummer Night's Dream 46x 6.8% stumper $645 avg J:15 DJ:29 FJ:2

J $200 2019 All heck breaks loose after the Puck drops; love is truly magic; ow! My Hermia!

J $500 1994 You could say Ralph Richardson's career hit "bottom" when he played Bottom in this comedy in the 1930s

J $1,000 2009 "I am that merry wanderer of the night, I jest to Oberon, and make him smile"

Julius Caesar 45x 8.9% stumper $562 avg J:23 DJ:22

J $100 1998 "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

DJ $500 DD 2000 Flavius: "Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home"

J $1,000 2017 Flavius, Cicero, Calpurnia

The Taming of the Shrew 45x 9.3% stumper $598 avg J:20 DJ:23 FJ:2

DJ $200 1994 The play in which Curtis asks, "Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?"

DJ $600 1988 This play inspired the operas "La Furia Domata" & "Petruccio"

DJ $2,000 DD 2002 In this play Shakespeare makes an easy pun on "cates", a word for delicacies or sweetmeats

The Merchant of Venice 39x 23.7% stumper $703 avg J:16 DJ:22 FJ:1

J $100 1998 This comedy opens on a Venetian street

J $500 1988 Much ado about a pound of flesh

J $1,000 2006 "Rialto Retailer"

Cleopatra 33x 12.5% stumper $400 avg J:12 DJ:20 FJ:1

J $100 1991 When this title character first appears, eunuchs are fanning her

J $800 2021 Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when this ancient queen says to an attendant, let's play billiards

DJ $1,000 DD 2021 "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life

Iago 32x 12.5% stumper $809 avg J:13 DJ:19

J $200 2020 "He hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected--framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature"

J $600 2023 Lines that nobody understands include this "Othello" villain calling Cassio "a fellow almost damned in a fair wife"

J $1,000 2007 "Beware, my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"

Juliet 29x 6.9% stumper $507 avg J:9 DJ:20

J $100 1993 Lady Capulet complains that this 13-year-old should have children like other girls her age

J $600 2006 Late "Can-Can" dancer Prowse

DJ $2,500 DD 1999 Johnny's performance in this role featured the death scene heard here:"O happy dagger this is thy sheath; there rest and let me die..."

Romeo 28x 3.6% stumper $600 avg J:8 DJ:20

J $100 1998 He goes to the Capulets' party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves--for now

DJ $600 1993 Paris calls him "That banish'd haughty Montague that murder'd my love's cousin"

DJ $1,000 1989 Title character who's Benvolio's buddy

Twelfth Night 27x 14.8% stumper $1,196 avg J:7 DJ:20

J $200 1997 This play may have premiered a dozen days after Christmas, which would explain its title

J $800 2023 Trout tickling, a way of catching fish with the bare hands, is mentioned in this comedy subtitled "Or What You Will"

J $1,000 2024 "She's the Man", in which Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy to play soccer at Illyria Prep, is an update of this play

The Merry Wives of Windsor 24x 17.4% stumper $1,104 avg J:5 DJ:18 FJ:1

J $300 1991 In this play, Falstaff disguises himself as a Windsor stag, "the fattest... i' the forest"

J $500 1988 Characters in this comedy include Shallow, Simple, Slender & Falstaff

DJ $1,000 1999 The story goes, Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love so Shakespeare quickly wrote this comedy

Much Ado About Nothing 24x 26.1% stumper $1,091 avg J:6 DJ:17 FJ:1

J $100 1995 In 1600 the first published edition of this comedy spelled the title word "Ado" Adoe

J $600 2006 "Lots o' Bustle Concerning Zilch"

J $1,000 DD 2024 The 2023 romcom "Anyone But You", with squabbling would-be lovers named Bea & Ben, was inspired by this comedy

Troilus and Cressida 24x 45.5% stumper $991 avg J:3 DJ:19 FJ:2

DJ $400 1988 The Trojan tragedy that features Helen of Troy

DJ $600 1992 The play in which Cassandra raves, "Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go"

DJ $1,000 1999 Toyotas! Yeah, that's it; it's about Toyotas

Sir John Falstaff 24x 13.6% stumper $655 avg J:8 DJ:14 FJ:2

DJ $300 DD 2000 Doubting his attractiveness to Doll Tearsheet in "Henry IV', he says, "I am old. I am old"

J $600 2023 This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk

DJ $1,000 DD 1987 Comic character depicted here with Shakespeare in monument at Stratford-on-Avon:

Lady Macbeth 22x 5.0% stumper $555 avg J:9 DJ:11 FJ:2

J $200 1997 "She has light by her continually, 'tis her command", & she sleepwalks carrying a taper

J $600 2014 "The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"

DJ $1,200 2004 "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

As You Like It 21x 50.0% stumper $1,215 avg J:4 DJ:16 FJ:1

J $400 1997 Anthony Hopkins played the female role of Audrey in an all-male production of this "likable" comedy

J $800 2016 "A Y L I"

J $1,000 2016 After being banished, Rosalind runs off to the Forest of Arden dressed like a man in this play

Henry V 19x 26.3% stumper $921 avg J:4 DJ:15

DJ $100 DD 2019 "Take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am thine'" is how this title king proposes to Katherine

J $600 2016 With action at Agincourt, "H the F"

DJ $1,000 DD 2021 Once more into this play whose centerpiece is a 1415 battle in France

Prospero 18x 16.7% stumper $1,156 avg J:5 DJ:13

DJ $200 1998 In "The Tempest", he presents a spirit-drama for his daughter & her fiance

J $600 2009 Magic man:PROPOSER

J $1,000 2017 With this name from "The Tempest", your boy should "live long and" succeed financially

Ophelia 18x $589 avg J:8 DJ:10

J $200 2023 In Act 3 Hamlet tells this other character to "Get thee to a nunnery"

J $500 1986 According to "Hamlet"s cast list, she's the daughter of the "Principal Secretary of State"

DJ $1,500 DD 1989 She said, "I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died"

Portia 17x 17.6% stumper $988 avg J:5 DJ:12

J $200 2006 She cleverly disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio from Shylock's revenge

J $500 1990 Ellen Terry was acclaimed for her 1875 performance in this role in "The Merchant of Venice"

J $1,000 2009 Venice disguiser:AIR TOP

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 17x 35.3% stumper $1,018 avg J:5 DJ:12

J $200 1996 Though this comedy has Verona in its title, it ends in a forest on the frontiers of Mantua

J $800 2012 "O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day", says Proteus, part of this title duo

DJ $1,600 2008 "To be in love--where scorn is bought with groans" protests Valentine, one of this title pair

Desdemona 16x $613 avg J:4 DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $200 2001 Othello believes the lies of Iago & murders this wife

J $600 2012 Othello calls her an "excellent wretch!"

DJ $1,000 DD 2015 "I never did offend you in my life; never loved Cassio but with such general warranty of heaven as I might love"

Shylock 15x 6.7% stumper $613 avg J:4 DJ:11

J $100 1999 In "The Merchant of Venice" this man's daughter Jessica elopes with Lorenzo

DJ $600 1997 In "The Merchant of Venice", his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio's friend Lorenzo

DJ $1,500 DD 2000 "Go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue--go, good Tubal--at our synagogue, Tubal"

Verona 13x $1,031 avg J:2 DJ:11

J $100 1998 A cute dog named Crab appears in the comedy about "The Two Gentlemen of" this city

J $600 2012 The chorus of "Romeo & Juliet" tells us it's in this city "where we lay our scene"

DJ $1,600 2003 A city:"If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace"

The Comedy of Errors 13x 23.1% stumper $769 avg J:3 DJ:10

DJ $200 1984 Shakespeare's only comedy with "comedy" in the title

DJ $600 1989 Make no mistake: this play about twins was "musicalized" as "The Boys from Syracuse"

DJ $1,200 2008 Aerosmith songs (& scantily clad cuties) enlivened "The Comedy of Aerosmith", a raunchy retelling of this play

The Winter's Tale 12x 18.2% stumper $736 avg J:3 DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $400 2006 "The Winter's..."

DJ $800 1999 Leontes is the king of Sicilia in this "seasonal" play set in Sicilia & Bohemia

DJ $1,000 1992 This "Tale" is the story of Leontes, King of Sicily, his wife, Hermione, & their daughter, Perdita

Puck 11x 18.2% stumper $500 avg J:4 DJ:7

J $300 1996 This "Midsummer Night's Dream" sprite lurks "in a gossip's bowl, in very likeness of a roasted crab"

J $600 2002 This mischievous trickster in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" can circle the earth in 40 minutes & summon a fog

DJ $1,000 1999 Johnny was downright spritely in this role:"If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have slumbered here while these visions did appear..."

Cordelia 11x 30.0% stumper $970 avg J:5 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 1998 Goneril & Regan's sister orbiting Uranus

DJ $600 1986 She told her father "I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less"

J $1,000 2015 In apaintingby James Barry, King Lear isweepingover the body of this daughter

Love's Labour's Lost 9x $988 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $300 1988 The only Shakespearean play with "love" in its title

DJ $800 2017 The princess of France must be admitted into the king of Navarre's park in this comedy where romance is actually found

J $1,000 2006 Will's only play with "love" in the title

Gertrude 9x 11.1% stumper $789 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 2016 In Ambroise Thomas' opera version, you'll need a mezzo-soprano to play this queen & mother of Hamlet

DJ $800 1988 She gasped, "O my dear Hamlet--the drink, the drink! I am poisoned!"

DJ $1,600 2022 "O, my dear Hamlet!" cries this queen, who dies after drinking from a poisoned cup intended for her son

Henry VIII 8x 16.7% stumper $783 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $200 2017 Anne Bullen; secretaries to Wolsey

J $500 1991 This historical play about a Tudor king may have been co-written by John Fletcher

DJ $2,000 2004 In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king

All's Well That Ends Well 8x 14.3% stumper $571 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $100 1996 You could say this comedy "ends well"--Helena finally wins the love of her husband Bertram

DJ $600 1999 A 1958 Three Stooges short changed "All" to "Oil" in this Shakespeare title

DJ $1,200 2008 The title of this problem comedy tells you how everything is going to turn out when the play is over

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Polonius 7x 16.7% stumper $1,483 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 2001 Hamlet fatally stabs this father of Ophelia & Laertes through a curtain

J $500 1991 His servant, Reynaldo, isn't present when Hamlet stabs him through the arras

J $1,000 2023 An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it

Macduff 7x $650 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2017 He kills & beheads Macbeth, who had wiped out his whole family

DJ $500 DD 1993 Macbeth taunts him to "lay on"; he does & Macbeth is killed

DJ $1,600 2011 It was this Thane of Fife, with a sword, on the battlefield, who killed Macbeth

Caliban 7x 66.7% stumper $883 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 1989 The name of this character in "The Tempest" may be a corruption of "cannibal"

J $800 2016 The characters of "The Tempest" include this "savage and deformed slave"

J $1,000 2022 Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way"

Goneril 7x 14.3% stumper $914 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 1998 Be "Lear"y of her--she poisoned her sister Regan

DJ $600 1990 She was King Lear's oldest daughter

DJ $1,000 1994 This daughter of King Lear poisons Regan & then commits suicide

Titania 6x 16.7% stumper $1,183 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $600 2018 Placed under a magic spell by her husband, this queen falls in love with the donkey-headed Nick Bottom

DJ $1,000 1993 Oberon quarrels with this queen over a little changeling boy whom she showers with attention

DJ $800 1997 She tells Oberon, "I know when thou hast stolen away from fairyland... versing love to amorous Phillida"

Mercutio 6x $933 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 1991 This friend of Romeo's cries "A plague on both your houses!" several times before he dies

J $600 2017 After Tybalt kills this friend of Romeo's in a duel, Romeo takes out Tybalt

DJ $1,000 2001 Will thought he'd keep this pal of Romeo alive, but the "plague o' both your houses" speech really worked

Horatio 6x 20.0% stumper $1,040 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $600 1990 Hamlet tells him, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

DJ $1,000 1984 Hamlet's closest friend, only major character left alive at play's end

FJ 1998 Hamlet tells this man that Yorick was "a fellow of infinite jest"

the Globe 6x $800 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1993 This theatre burned down in 1613 after a prop cannon fired the roof during "Henry VIII"

DJ $600 1987 In 1613, this theater most associated with Shakespeare burned down during a performance of "Henry VIII"

DJ $3,000 DD 2021 In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue

Duncan 6x 66.7% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 2008 This modern dance pioneer lost her 2 children to a 1913 auto accident before dying in one herself

J $800 2006 Mahogany master Phyfe

DJ $1,200 2013 In the not-so-tragic "Thane!", Macbeth hangs out with Malcolm & Donalbain, sons of this king

Queen Elizabeth I 6x 33.3% stumper $383 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2012 For most of Shakespeare's life, this monarch ruled England

DJ $800 1993 Legend says "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was inspired by this queen's wish to see Falstaff in love

DJ $400 2001 Of Shakespeare's history play, she exclaimed, "I am Richard II, know ye not that?"

Kate 6x $500 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $400 1987 Cole Porter musical based on "The Taming of the Shrew"

DJ $600 1985 Name of the shrew to whom Petruchio says "Kiss me"

DJ $200 1998 Petruchio might have said of her: Take my wife--please!

Miranda 5x 40.0% stumper $1,880 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $600 1991 Tempestuous daughter who asks Prospero to allay the wild waters

J $1,000 2012 In "The Tempest", she says, "How beauteous mankind is!" (She's been on an island a long time)

J $1,800 DD 2021 This "Tempest"uous daughter of Prospero says, "O brave new world, that has such people in it!"

Malcolm 5x 100.0% stumper $1,375 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $500 1989 At the end of "Macbeth", he invites everyone to see him crowned at Scone

J $1,000 2003 Duncan's eldest son(7)

FJ 1997 At the end of "Macbeth", he tells his thanes they will "henceforth be Earls, the first" ever in Scotland

Bianca 5x 60.0% stumper $1,400 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $1,000 2021 She's the impatient sister of the title shrew

DJ $1,000 1991 "None shall have access unto" her "till Katherine the curst have got a husband"

DJ $1,000 1988 She isn't allowed to marry before her "shrew"ish sister Kate

Ariel 5x 40.0% stumper $1,260 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 2000 In 1966 Jon Voight was onstage in San Diego playing this airy sprite in "The Tempest"

DJ $1,000 1995 Roddy McDowall played this magical sprite in a 1955 production of "The Tempest" in Stratford, Conn.

DJ $1,000 1988 In "The Tempest", this sprite has the power to make himself invisible

Arden 5x 40.0% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $600 1987 Maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, Mary, or name of the forest in "As You Like It"

J $1,000 2010 Most of "As You Like It" takes place in this forest

DJ $700 DD 1999 The maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, or the forest where he set much of "As You Like It"

Anne Hathaway 5x $840 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2014 How fitting that she starred in "Twelfth Night" in 2009--she has the same name as Shakespeare's wife

DJ $600 1997 Shakespeare's daughter Susanna was born 6 months after his marriage to this woman

DJ $1,000 1984 She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern 5x $1,080 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $600 2017 Personally, I'd avoid these paired names, chums of Hamlet; it's a lot to write

J $1,000 2001 Something's rottin' in Denmark & it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2

DJ $1,000 1996 These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius

true love 5x $500 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $100 1997 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" includes the line "The course of" this "never did run smooth"

DJ $600 1992 Rosalind says, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for" this emotion

DJ $1,200 2006 "A Midsummer Night's Dream":"The course of ____ ____ never did run smooth"

Vienna 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1996 "Measure for Measure" takes place in this Austrian capital, portrayed as a swamp of immorality

J $500 1998 Vincentio, duke of this Austrian city, is the first character to speak in "Measure for Measure"

DJ $200 1990 "Measure for Measure" is the only Shakespeare play that opens in this Austrian city

Tybalt 4x 25.0% stumper $1,350 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2008 Mercutio, who has a few choice words about the Montagues & Capulets before dying

DJ $1,000 1994 He's Lady Capulet's nephew in "Romeo and Juliet"

DJ $2,000 2011 It was Romeo, in a public place, with a sword, killing this relative of Juliet

Paris 4x $1,333 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $1,000 2006 Quite an eyeful, he's the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo

FJ 1992 The 3 characters who die in the last scene of "Romeo and Juliet" are Romeo, Juliet & this person

J $1,000 2002 This nobleman has designs on Juliet, but it's Romeo who wins her heart

James I 4x 66.7% stumper $1,133 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 Shakespeare's theatrical company became known as The King's Men in honor of this king's patronage

FJ 1990 The name of Shakespeare's acting company, the King's Men, referred to this king

DJ $1,000 1985 After the death of good queen Bess, he became Shakespeare's king & patron

Hippolyta 4x 50.0% stumper $1,300 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1991 This Amazon is the first woman to speak in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

DJ $1,000 1996 In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons

DJ $1,600 2005 In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this Amazon declares, "I was with Hercules and Cadmus once"

Bottom 4x 25.0% stumper $1,750 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1988 In act 3 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he had a fling with a fairy queen

DJ $1,200 2024 "Enter Puck, and" this character "with an ass's head"

DJ $2,000 2024 In "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (of course), this addled weaver "had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was"

Banquo 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1989 At the banquet, his ghost is invisible to everyone but Macbeth

J $800 2018 In "Macbeth" the status quo for him (but not his son Fleance) was being murdered

DJ $1,000 1996 Macbeth tells 2 murderers "to leave no rubs nor botches" in killing this man who returns as a ghost

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 4x $350 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1985 "Lord, what fools these mortals be!", says Puck in this comedy

DJ $400 1997 Peter Brook's unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes

DJ $400 1996 In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver

the winter of our discontent 4x 50.0% stumper $1,450 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 2019 In "Richard III", "Now is" this 5-word season "made glorious summer by this sun of York"

DJ $1,000 1988 Line preceding "made glorious summer by this sun of York"

DJ $800 2001 "Richard III", Act 1, scene 1, line 1 by Steinbeck

the three witches 4x 25.0% stumper $575 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1994 When "Macbeth" is presented in French, these characters are called Les Trois Sorcieres

DJ $800 2016 A member of this trio asks "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

J $300 1993 Macbeth calls them "filthy hags!"--how rude

the First Folio 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2023 Without the 1623 publication of Shakespeare's plays, today known by this name, half might have been lost forever

DJ $1,200 2003 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Stratford-upon-Avon in England.) This monument was in place by 1623, the year of a historic collection of Shakespeare's work, known by these two words

J $800 2012 Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays

Laertes 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $800 2021 The son of Polonius, he seeks revenge against Hamlet for his father's murder

DJ $1,000 1993 In "Hamlet" this man says, "And so have I a noble father lost, a sister driven into desperate terms..."

DJ $1,600 2015 Hamlet knocks off Polonius, Claudius & this young guy but succumbs himself to the young guy's poisoned sword

Fairies 4x $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1998 Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers

J $500 1993 In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania is the queen of these beings

DJ $400 2022 In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania works her magic as queen of these creatures

Claudius 4x 50.0% stumper $725 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1990 He killed Hamlet's father by pouring poison into his ear

J $500 1997 After stabbing him, Hamlet cries, "This incestuous, murderous, damned Dane...follow my mother"

DJ $1,200 2010 Hamlet Sr., who for a dead guy, is still pretty spry as the ghost

"Macbeth" 4x 50.0% stumper $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I's interest in witchcraft

DJ $600 2000 "Fair is foul and foul is fair; hover through the fog and filthy air"

DJ $1,000 1997 "Umabatha", a Zulu production of this "bewitching" tragedy, appeared in London in 1972

Sir Laurence Olivier 4x $500 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1998 1945's patriotic version of "Henry V" was directed by this actor

DJ $800 1996 Horror film stars Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee appeared in this British actor's 1948 film "Hamlet"

DJ $200 1994 This British actor-director's 1965 film of "Othello" featured Derek Jacobi as Cassio

Regan 4x $1,200 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $800 1998 An actress should have a wide range to play this second daughter of King Lear

DJ $2,000 2015 She is poisoned by her sister Goneril

FJ 2009 The name of this royal daughter from a tragedy is from a word meaning "little king"

Katherine 4x $925 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2018 In "The Taming of the Shrew", she's the shrew tamed by Petruchio

J $800 2011 I'd think twice about naming your daughter this; she might turn into a shrew like in the play

J $1,500 DD 2016 Bianca must wait for this bad-tempered older sister to wed before she can

a crown 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2006 "Henry IV, Part II":"Uneasy lies the head that wears a ____"

DJ $800 2004 Richard III says, "How sweet a thing it is to wear" one & Henry IV says, "Uneasy lies the head that wears" one

DJ $800 2001 One of Henry IV's big lines is "Uneasy lies the head that wears" one of these

Worth Knowing (64)

Venice 3 the Capulets 3 Stratford-on-Avon 3 play on 3 Mistress Quickly 3 Michael Redgrave 3 Joan of Arc 3 England 3 discretion 3 Anne 3 Verona & Venice 3 the Forest of Arden 3 John 3 the sonnets 3 York 2 Yorick 2 woman 2 Venus 2 Tyre 2 the Weird Sisters 2 the Globe Theatre 2 Richard II 2 Regan & Goneril 2 Orlando 2 music 2 murder 2 Montague 2 Midsummer 2 Macbeth & Lady Macbeth 2 Lynn Fontanne 2 London 2 Lead 2 Lady Macduff 2 Kenneth Branagh 2 Italy 2 histories 2 himself 2 Henry VII 2 Henry VI 2 Helena 2 Gloucester 2 Friar Lawrence 2 France 2 Dunsinane 2 Dogberry 2 Denmark 2 dead 2 cheek 2 Cardinal Wolsey 2 Bosworth Field 2 Beatrice 2 apothecary 2 Al Pacino 2 a serpent's tooth 2 "The Merchant of Venice" 2 "Richard III" 2 Giuseppe Verdi 2 the groundlings 2 never did run smooth 2 iambic pentameter 2 house and home 2 Hamlet's father 2 Elsinore 2 Elizabeth 2

Other

32 answers | 160 clues

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Titus Andronicus 20x 35.0% stumper $1,280 avg J:8 DJ:12

DJ $200 1991 Marcus Andronicus is this title character's brother

J $600 2005 After being your own severed hand on a platter, I think killing Tamora & her sons was a cry for help, General

J $1,000 2019 When in Rome, revenge is a dish, all right; S-A/T-U-R/N-I-N/U-S! Oh, man, does everyone die

Petruchio 15x 13.3% stumper $1,013 avg J:4 DJ:11

DJ $400 1991 The man who brags, "I am he am born to tame you, Kate"

J $500 1996 When he calls Kate a wasp, she retorts, "If I be waspish, best beware my sting"

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 Gremio asks him, "Will you woo this wild-cat?"

Antony and Cleopatra 14x 46.2% stumper $1,708 avg J:4 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $200 2010 This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria

DJ $500 DD 1987 This play opens in a palace in Alexandria

DJ $1,000 DD 2023 "Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"

Brutus 13x 15.4% stumper $608 avg J:5 DJ:8

DJ $200 1989 He said, "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him...but, as he was ambitious, I slew him"

J $500 1998 He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar's murder

J $1,000 2002 Roman holiday for this man's funeral; "noblest Roman of them all", says Antony

Timon of Athens 9x 11.1% stumper $811 avg J:3 DJ:6

DJ $400 1991 Act V of this play opens in the woods in front of Timon's cave

J $500 1995 Phrynia & Timandra are mistresses to Alcibiades in the play about this title Athenian

J $1,000 2025 Reasonably enough, for the whole play it's "Athens and neighbourhood"

Cressida 9x 22.2% stumper $844 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $200 1996 Though she promises Troilus she'll be faithful, she dallies with Diomedes

DJ $600 1998 Ah, the "sad cries" heard from Troilus when this tramp betrayed him!

J $1,000 2018 After pledging her love to King Priam's son, she betrays him & takes up with Diomedes

Marc Antony 8x $517 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:2

DJ $200 1994 Cleopatra says of him, "Realms and Islands were as plates dropped from his pocket"

DJ $800 1999 As he dies in Alexandria, his last words are "Now my spirit is going. I can no more"

DJ $1,200 2019 "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men"

Should-Know (6)

Pericles 7x 42.9% stumper $1,057 avg DJ:7

DJ $800 1997 This prince of Tyre discovers the wife he believed was dead has become a priestess of Diana

DJ $1,000 2000 Marina is captured by pirates & sold to a brothel in the play named for this Prince of Tyre

DJ $800 1994 Antiochus, the king of Antioch, addresses this title character as "Young Prince of Tyre"

Cassius 6x 33.3% stumper $1,267 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $600 2017 In the play "Julius Caesar" & in real life, this man & Brutus led the assassination conspiracy

J $1,000 DD 1991 Pindarus is a servant to this lean & hungry guy

DJ $800 1985 Caesar calls him dangerous because he has "a lean and hungry look"

Coriolanus 5x 20.0% stumper $680 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1994 Bertolt Brecht's adaptation of this play is called "Coriolan"

DJ $600 1995 Act I, Scene II of this tragedy is set in the Senate house in Corioli

DJ $1,000 2000 Banished from Rome though he captured Corioli, this title warrior says, "You common cry of curs...I banish you!"

Pericles, Prince of Tyre 5x 80.0% stumper $1,440 avg DJ:5

DJ $1,200 2006 "Pericles..."

DJ $1,000 1991 The playwright George Wilkins may have collaborated on this play about a prince of Tyre

DJ $1,000 1989 This play features lords, pirates, a prince of Tyre & a 1-man chorus named Gower

Troilus 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1990 Cressida's uncle, Pandarus, calls him "the prince of chivalry"

DJ $2,000 2010 Cressida's lover, after happiness has vanished

DJ $400 1989 Cressida could tell you his name is an anagram of "OILRUST"

Oberon 4x 25.0% stumper $725 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1998 We doubt if this king of the fairies would feel at home on Borneo

DJ $1,000 1988 Confronting his mate in the forest, his first line is, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"

DJ $500 DD 2007 A fairy:NO ROBE

Worth Knowing (19)

Mark Antony 3 Athens 3 Timon 3 the king 2 Puck's tux 2 Padua 2 Octavius 2 merchant 2 March 2 Mab 2 Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra 2 Henry IV 2 Eleanor of Aquitaine 2 Diana 2 asp 2 Alexandria 2 "Troilus and Cressida" 2 "Et tu, Brute?" 2 Goneril & Regan 2

British Literature

1 answers | 6 clues

Should-Know (1)

Rome 6x $317 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2006 "Not that I loved Caesar less", says Brutus, "but that I loved" this city "more"

DJ $600 1994 Much of "Titus Andronicus" is set in this Italian city that Titus describes as "a wilderness of tigers"

J $200 1993 Like "Julius Caesar", "Coriolanus" opens on a street in this city

Poetry

2 answers | 5 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

Measure for Measure 3 Remembrance of Things Past 2

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