| First Lines | Play |
| 'Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio' | |
| 'You've ungently Brutus, stolen my bed' | |
| 'Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' | |
| 'If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly' | |
| 'Think not I love him, though I ask for him' | |
| 'And what's he then that says I play the villain?' | |
| 'Now is the winter of our discontent' | |
| 'What studied torments, tyrant, has thou for me?' | |
| 'Thus have I politicly begun my reign' | |
| 'Our revels now are ended' | |
| 'To be or not to be, that is the question' | |
| 'How happy some o'er other some' | |