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Quiz: Shakespeare's plays

1. a) - Julius Caesar (1599)

- Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
- Coriolanus (1608)
- Titus Andronicus

b) Titus Andronicus

c) Julius Caesar

2. A) a) The Taming of the Shrew

b) Much Ado About Nothing

c) The Comedy of Errors

d) The Merry Wives of Windsor

e) Twelfth Night

B) - The Comedy of Errors

- Twelfth Night

C) - The Taming of the Shrew

- Katherine (or Kate) is the elder outspoken daughter of
Baptista Minola and the sister of apparently sweet-tempered Bianca.
Kate's headstrong ways and sharp tongue initially make
her poor material for a wife but Baptista refuses to allow his
younger daughter to marry until Kate has a husband.
- Bianca is the sister of Katherina

3. A) a) Othello (c.1601 – 1604)

- Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and

disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with
Othello, a man several years her senior and not of her race.
She is the wife of Othello and the dauther of Brabantio.

b) King Lear

- Goneril is the eldest of King Lear's daughters. Along with

her sister Regan, Goneril is considered a wicked character. She is
obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly
 father as ruler of the kingdom.
- Regan is the middle child of King Lear's daughters and is
married to the Duke of Cornwall.Also atrected by power.
- Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear’s three daughters.
After her elderly father offers her the opportunity to profess her love to
him in return for one third of the land in his kingdom,
she refuses and is banished for the majority of the play.

c) Macbeth

- Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth, a Scottish

nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide, she becomes
Queen of Scotland, but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part
in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act, an apparent suicide.

d) The tragedy of Hamlet

- Ophelia is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the

daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince
Hamlet. (drowns)
- Queen Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of
Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he
resents her for marrying her husband's brother Claudius
after he murdered the King (young Hamlet's father, King Hamlet).

B) a) King Lear

b) Othello

c) Macbeth

d) Hamlet

C) Hamlet

4. - Romeo and Juliet

- Capulet and Montague
- Verona

5. a) Hamlet: Miranda is the beautiful daughter of the old Duke

Prospero.

b) A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania is the queen of the

fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the
name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.

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7. a) Othello - Lago: Othello's ensign and Emilia's husband, a

villain. He hides his real nature under the veil of 'honesty'.

b) Macbeth - Banquo is at first an ally to Macbeth (both are

captains in the King's army) and they are together when they meet the
Three Witches. After prophesying that Macbeth will
become king, the witches tell Banquo that he will not be king
himself, but that his descendants will be. Later, Macbeth in his lust for
power sees Banquo as a threat and has him
murdered.
- Fleance: Banquo's son
- MacDuff: the Thane of Fife, Macduff plays a pivotal
role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills
Macbeth in the final act

c) The Tempest - Caliban: enslaved by Prospero, is the son of

the witch Sycorax
- Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who
(with his infant daughter, Miranda) was put to sea on "a rotten carcass
of a butt [boat]" to die by his usurping brother,
Antonio, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda
survived, and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery
(referred to as his "Art" in the play),
and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other
characters. On the island, he becomes master of the monster Caliban
(the son of Sycorax, a malevolent witch), and
Ariel, an elemental who has become enslaved by Prospero after he is
freed from his prison inside a tree.

d) Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio is a relative of the Prince and

Paris, and is a close friend of Romeo, and Romeo's cousin Benvolio. He
is neither a Montague nor a Capulet, but his
friends are Montagues, likely because he cannot stand Tybalt of
the Capulets. Mercutio is one of the few in Verona with the ability to
freely float around both houses.

e) A Midsummer Night's Dream - Oberon: King of the

Fairies
- Puck: (=Robin Goodfellow)
is based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck.
Puck is a clever and mischievous elf and
personifies the trickster or the wise knave. In the
play, Puck is servant to Oberon, the fairy king.

f) Hamlet - Claudius: brother to King Hamlet, second husband

to Gertrude and uncle to Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark
by murdering his own brother with poison and then
marrying the late king's widow.
- Laertes: the son of Polonius and the brother of
Ophelia. In the final scene, he kills Hamlet with a poisoned sword to
avenge the deaths of his father and sister, for which
he blamed Hamlet.
- Rosencrantz andd Guildenstern: Courtiers, friends
to Hamlet