Books Quiz - Author - William Shakespeare 4 (Answers)
William Shakespeare is a name known the world over - even now, 400 years after his death. Some of his works, Hamlet for example or King Lear, are studied in classrooms from Alaska to India and enjoyed in theatres across the globe. This is the last in our set of 4 quizzes on the literary legend that is William Shakespeare.
By the end of the 16th Century Shakespeare was a well-established poet and playwright. He even performed some of his plays before Queen Elizabeth I. In 1602 his continuing success allowed him to move to Silver Street, where he wrote Hamlet and Macbeth. Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford where he died on the 23rd of April 1616 at the age of 52.
See how much you know about the life and works of perhaps the greatest English writer and certainly the most renowned playwright, William Shakespeare in this, the last of four fun quizzes!
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The two friends both fall in love with the same woman
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Ophelia is his girlfriend
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The Capulet family in Romeo and Juliet is named after a 13th century Italian political faction, the Capuleti
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Cade led a revolt of Kentish peasants in 1450
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Troilus is a Trojan prince
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The turtle in the poem is actually a turtle dove rather than an aquatic reptile!
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Shylock names a pound of Antonio's flesh as security for the loan
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Bottom is the comic relief during the play
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The Comedy of Errors was itself based on The Twin Brothers, a play by the ancient Roman, Plautus
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The play tells the story of a well-loved and generous Athenian who spends his entire wealth on others
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