| 1st play is the most often guessed on Sporcle quizzes; 2nd play is the least often guessed |
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| Name the two plays adapted to film by Julie Taymor, in order of their release (1999, 2010) |
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| 1st Play was adapted to film by Al Pacino and Michael Radford in 2004; 2nd Play is set to be adapted by them in 2012 |
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| Name the two plays whose titles each feature a repeated word (listed alphabetically) |
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| 1st Play features Helen of Troy; 2nd Play features Joan of Arc |
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| 1st play is Shakespeare's longest; 2nd play features the largest cast |
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| 1st play is Shakespeare’s shortest play; 2nd play is his shortest tragedy |
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| 1st play has the highest number of scenes; 2nd play has the lowest number |
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| 1st play features pirates, sailors and fishermen; 2nd play features a tinker, a joiner, and a bunch of fairies |
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| 1st play features Falstaff and no Prince Hal; 2nd play features Prince Hal grown up and no Falstaff |
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| 1st play features Time as an actual character; 2nd play features the line 'I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me.' |
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| Name the two plays where the title character speaks the last line (epilogues included-listed alphabetically) |
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| 1st Play is performed for the Queen at the beginning of ‘’Shakespeare in Love’’; 2nd Play is what Shakespeare is inspired to write at the end of the film |
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| 1st play has earliest known Shakespeare film adaptation (1899); 2nd play has alternate title “All Is True” |
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| 1st play’s cast includes a Lucius, a Lucilius, and a Lucullus; 2nd play’s cast includes a Volumnia, a Valeria, and a Virgilia |
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| 1st play’s lead has the 2nd highest line count in Shakespeare (for a single play), behind Hamlet; 2nd play’s lead has the 2nd highest line count for a female, behind Cleopatra |
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| 1st play: Falstaff says children should “addict themselves to sack”; 2nd play: ‘O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!' |
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| 1st play’s dueling couple was played on film by Branagh and Thompson (1993); 2nd play’s dueling couple was played on film by Taylor and Burton (1967) |
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| 1st play features the lowest line count for any Title Role in Shakespeare; 2nd play features the Title Role getting killed by the Title Role of another play |
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