FAMOUS FILM ADAPTATIONS | SONGS | COUPLETS | OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE | FAMOUS LAST WORDS |
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Who is IAN MCKELLEN?
This man played the title role in a Richard III set during the 1930s
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What is TWELFTH NIGHT?
"Oh mistress mine, where are you roaming,
Stay and hear your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low" |
What is HAMLET?
"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!" |
What is ANONYMOUS?
In 2011, this film by Roland Emmerich proposed the Oxfordian answer to the question of authorship
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Who is MERCUTIO?
"I have it, and soundly too; Your houses!"
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What is THE TEMPEST?
This play was adapted into a science fiction film in 1956 called Forbidden Planet
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What is AS YOU LIKE IT?
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude" |
What is MACBETH?
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes" |
Who is CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE?
This writer of Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine is often touted as the real author of Shakespeare's plays.
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Who is OTHELLO?
"I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss" |
What is MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO?
Keanu Reeves starred in this adaptation of Henry IV
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What is OTHELLO?
"The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all a green willow. Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow." |
What is ROMEO AND JULIET?
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight.
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" |
Who is JOHN FLETCHER?
TWO NOBLE KINSMEN is thought to be half by Shakespeare and half by this man
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Who is CLAUDIUS?
"O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt"
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What is THE TAMING OF THE SHREW?
The movie 10 Things I Hate About You is based on this comedy
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What is KING LEAR?
"He that has and a little tiny wit--
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,-- Must make content with his fortunes fit, For the rain it raineth every day." |
What is HENRY V
"His jest will savor but of shallow wit,
When thousands weep more than did laugh at it" |
What is DOUBLE FALSEHOOD or CARDENIO?
(DOUBLE FALSEHOOD is an 18th Century work by Lewis Theobald, supposedly based on the lost Shakespeare/Fletcher collaboration CARDENIO)
This is the most recent play accepted into Shakespeare's canon
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Who is AARON THE MOOR?
"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul"
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What is THRONE OF BLOOD?
This is the title of Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation of Macbeth
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What is THE TEMPEST?
"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange" |
What is THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
"Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
And by the doom of death end woes and all" |
Who is NAHUM TATE?
A Restoration adaptation of King Lear by this playwright had a happy ending
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Who is IAGO?
"From this time forth I never will speak word"
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