Happy Birthday Will! by /10 17 Happy Birthday Shakespeare Quiz 1 / 10 Which of the following lines did Shakespeare NOT write? "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" "All that glitters is not gold" "If music be the food of love, play on" "Something wicked this way comes" This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. 2 / 10 How many plays did Shakespeare write? 21 or 22 28 or 29 37 or 38 43 or 44 3 / 10 What was Shakespeare's wife's name? Elizabeth Shakespeare Anne Hatheway Mary Shelley Ann Lewis Shakespeare 4 / 10 What university did Shakespeare attend? Cambridge Oxford Wittenberg None 5 / 10 Which play was not written by Shakespeare, but was attributed to him? Every Man in His Humor Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Won The Jew of Malta Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play. Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play. 6 / 10 What is the term for a book in which each sheet is folded over only once through the middle, forming two leaves (or four pages)? Folio Bi Fold Pamphlet Quarto 7 / 10 Which of the following is NOT a stage direction in Shakespeare's play? [They fly, leaving their clothes behind.] [Exit, pursued by a bear.] [Puts foul linen on his head] [Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand.] Although Falstaff climbs into a buck basket and has dirty linen thrown on him, there is no stage direction to put foul linen on his head.The other stage directions are from Henry IV Part 1, The Winter's Tale, and Titus Andronicus. Although Falstaff climbs into a buck basket and has dirty linen thrown on him, there is no stage direction to put foul linen on his head.The other stage directions are from Henry IV Part 1, The Winter's Tale, and Titus Andronicus. 8 / 10 All of the following plays have ghosts EXCEPT: Macbeth Hamlet Richard III Antony and Cleopatra 9 / 10 Which of the following plays was NOT printed in the First Folio? Hamlet Pericles Coriolanus The Tempest Pericles was not included in the First Folio, as the editors were not certain it was authored by Shakespeare. Pericles was not included in the First Folio, as the editors were not certain it was authored by Shakespeare. 10 / 10 Which of Shakespeare's plays is rumored to be cursed? Hamlet King Lear Romeo and Juliet Macbeth In the backstage world of theatre, there is a superstition amongst actors that Macbeth is cursed, and they refuse to speak its name aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play" or "Mac-B" In the backstage world of theatre, there is a superstition amongst actors that Macbeth is cursed, and they refuse to speak its name aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play" or "Mac-B" Your score is The average score is 75%Share your results and tag #hobnobtheatre LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz The Tempest at Preston Park and Zelienople Auditions announced for The Tempest! prospero
