Can you name the Shakespeare plays from these quotes?

Quote	Play	Spoken By
To be, or not to be: that is the question		Hamlet
All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players		Jaques
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!		Richard III
Out, damned spot! out, I say!		Lady Macbeth
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears		Antony
Lord, what fools these mortals be!		Puck
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more		Henry V
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows		Trinculo
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!		Iago
Parting is such sweet sorrow		Juliet
This above all: to thine own self be true		Polonius
My salad days, When I was green in judgment		Cleopatra

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Shakespeare Quotes Quiz

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Created Apr 27, 2008 in Literature
Featured Apr 27, 2008
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	samivel:	Nov 18th, 2008 at 18:27 GMT	20 points
	Why two quotes from Hamlet and one for the other plays cited? Perhaps a King Lear quote could be included?

	fran:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 12:07 GMT	4 points
	No King Lear or Much Ado About Nothing? A good one for Much Ado would be 'I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest'.

	Lulu:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 17:38 GMT	7 points
	Much Ado should definately be included.

	cocky:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 03:42 GMT	8 points
	I knew "To thine own self be true" from watching Gilligan's Island

	davebesag:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 02:16 GMT	5 points
	Very surprised how few people know the Henry V quote but I assume it's much more well known in the UK than the USA.

	Ely:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	0 points
	Fellow Sporleian - heed my words - 'Words without thought, ne'er to heaven go' - obv they can't include all the quotations ever, I'd say they did a fiar bit, maybe 'nothing will come of nothing' but they got the best ones in there.

	LaStic:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT	3 points
	I dids't struggle and - nay, I say, got ne're a score on this one

	Sparky:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 15:13 GMT	7 points
	The double Hamlet confused me because I assumed there would be a 1:1 ratio so I dismissed hamlet after the first quote. Still the last one is the only one I missed, which I'm quite pleased with really.

	k3lit0:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT	4 points
	Two hamlets is irritatin' since the rests are 1 each, I didn't bother to guess the plays I'd already got.. but I guess it prevents guessing so...

	Wordnerd23:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 22:46 GMT	4 points
	What, no quotes from Titus Andronicus? Haha.

BonesLover:

Jun 21st, 2009 at 00:42 GMT

5 points

I LOVE Shakespeare

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	andrea:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	3 points
	Fun, but we should have to guess the speaker too instead of getting it for free.

	PoisonSumac:	Jul 25th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	4 points
	I think this definitely may have been too easy - I got 10/12 on my first try and have never even read a Shakespeare play! I was confused by the second Hamlet quote as well, I mean out of 30+ plays you really don't need to use the same one twice to get 12 questions. :-)

	sten:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT	1 point
	Dave Besag--yes, it must be a UK thing. I'm pretty familiar with Shakespeare quotes but have never heard that one (nor read Henry V, actually).

	PassTheJello:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 22:49 GMT	3 points
	Sequel! ... Sequel! ... Sequel!

	shakescene:	Sep 2nd, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	-4 points
	Definitely should accept Mark or Marc Ant(h)ony as well as Antony.

	oxguy3:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 19:28 GMT	4 points
	Hamlet shouldn't have two quotes. My thinking when I saw the second quote was "That sounds like Hamlet but I've already answered Hamlet so it can't be" Please remove it.

	Karras:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 10:30 GMT	2 points
	Shakescene: Marc Antony is not the name of the play, nor the character quoted.

	worldconqueror:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 06:09 GMT	1 point
	Davebesag--It isn't an American thing at all. Henry V has been performed in the states many, many times and the quote used is a well known one. By the way, both L. Olivier and K. Branagh have made their way to the New World. "Mark Anthony" and, unfortunately, gaining insight into Shakespeare's words via reruns of gilligan's Island (along with inferior enphasis on education), is an American thing.

worldconqueror:

Dec 13th, 2009 at 06:19 GMT

2 points

I have no problem with including two quotes from Hamlet in this game, especially when they are two of the most well known Shakespearean lines from one of his most commonly studied plays.

	The_Snakes:	Dec 30th, 2009 at 00:41 GMT	2 points
	No "something is rotten in the state of Denmark"? Or "Alas poor Yorick" for that matter?

	marsviking:	Apr 22nd, 2010 at 16:31 GMT	1 point
	I find it strange that Romeo and Juliet live in Verona, but her name is a French one, and both their surnames are French.

	marsviking:	Apr 22nd, 2010 at 16:33 GMT	0 points
	shakespeare said " Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Odd, because he "borrowed" much of his material from Italian authors.

	Hamlet:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 22:53 GMT	3 points
	@anne, Shakespeare didn't write many good plays? I take it you haven't read many! lol

	tulliuscicero:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT	1 point
	No Merry Wives? Quickly: She does so take on with her men: they mistook their erection. Falstaff: So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise. Honestly, it's the best crass pun in all of literature.

	MsShenanigans:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 22:45 GMT	4 points
	The play is called "Henry V" not "King Henry V" I typed the right name and still did not get it.

	NvjdsIsSmart:	Jun 18th, 2011 at 01:43 GMT	1 point
	How about "Pearls Before Swine" quotes? Too Bea or not too Bea? That is the quest, Chan.

	GwynE:	Jun 27th, 2011 at 10:22 GMT	0 points
	Hamlet must be the most often quoted play so deserves two quotes. Re henry V "once more unto the breach" is a much used expression in UK English so probably more familiar this side of the Atlantic.

	dunxxx22:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 00:57 GMT	1 point
	good quiz but to make it harder why not remove the play it is in as it, in my opinion becomes far to easy to guess

	Moflo:	Nov 20th, 2011 at 01:51 GMT	3 points
	The speakers made this quiz soooooo easy.

	Lebasi:	Dec 8th, 2011 at 21:19 GMT	3 points
	I'm confused, you've given the speakers and asked for the play but you accept the speaker as an answer

	Jaccobabe:	Dec 23rd, 2011 at 10:23 GMT	1 point
	Something must be wrong here. Even Jaques was accepted as the right answer... Got them all right of course, just by copying the name of the speaker

	pixiepop:	May 2nd, 2012 at 22:18 GMT	1 point
	Actually, @ Marsviking, Shakespeare borrowed from the Roman authors, who borrowed from the Greeks. Who knows who they borrowed from... And @Davebesag, I may be American, but I have definitely heard the Henry V quote. Maybe it's because I'm a history geek and have always like the historical plays over the others. :)