Can you name the Shakespeare plays by stage direction?

created by FretfulP
  • Enter a play in the box below
  • Correctly named plays will show up below
  • Click any empty Stage Direction or Play to answer for that location
  • Source: Open Source Shakespeare
  • Names of title characters are redacted.
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Stage DirectionPlay
Canidius marcheth with his army one way over the stage, and Taurus, the lieutenant of Octavius Caesar, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight.
Enter Angelo with the chain.
Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.
Pours the poison in his ears.
Enter Launce, leading a dog.
They seize and blindfold him.
Goes into the trunk. The scene closes.
Charles is thrown. Shout.
He throws the bottle at him.
Here the hind vanishes under the altar and in the place ascends a rose tree having one rose upon it.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
Enter a Messenger with two heads and a hand.
Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.
The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter King Henry and his train.
... two Noblemen bearing great standing-bowls for the christening gifts; then four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the child...
Storm still.
Alarums, excursions. Enter the Bastard, with Austria’s head.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.
Enter a Father that has killed his son, bringing in the body.
Stage DirectionPlay
Re-enter Lucius, with wine and taper.
Enter Holofernes, for Judas, and Moth, for Hercules.
Enter a Townsman of Saint Alban’s, crying, ‘A miracle!’
Pulls off the friar’s hood, and discovers Duke Vincentio.
Diana appears to [title character] as in a vision.
Enter Exton, with persons bearing a coffin.
Gloucester offers to put up a bill; Bishop of Winchester snatches it, and tears it.
Enter Ariel invisible, playing solemn music.
He stifles her.
Hero swoons.
He unlocks the golden casket.
Re-enter Hortensio, with his head broke.
Tybalt under [title character's] arm stabs Mercutio, and flees with his followers.
Beats them out, and then retires to his cave.
Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen.
Enter Lion and Moonshine.
Ajax offers to beat him.
Enter the Ghosts of the two young princes.
Exeunt all, except Clown.
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Shakespeare Play by Stage Direction Quiz

  1. by FretfulP
  • Created Sep 23, 2011 in Literature
  • Featured Apr 9, 2012
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