Shakespeare's Plays
The Lion King is based on this Shakespeare play.
What is Hamlet?
The first great dynasty of China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Widely considered the greatest Frankish chieftain of the Middle Ages.
Who is Charlemagne or "Charles the Great"?
Who is the main character in The Divine Comedy by Dante?
Who is Dante?
The first country to print books.
What was China?
This play inspired the now much used trope of enemies to lovers.
What is Much Ado about Nothing.
The guardians of the tomb of the first Qin Emperor.
What are the terracotta warriors?
The very first literary piece in an European vernacular.
What is Beowulf?
According to Dante there are this many circles of Hell.
What are 9?
The country where the first novel was written.
What is Japan?
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears." The person who says these lines in the play Julius Caesar.
Who is Mark Antony?
The dynasty that was the high point and classical phase of the Chinese Empire.
What is the Han Dynasty?
The origin of the name Wednesday.
What is Woden's Day?
You might see Aristotle and Plato in this circle of Hell.
What is the first - Limbo?
The name for a culture dependent on written language rather that on oral tradition.
What is textual culture?
Ten Things I hate about You with Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is based on a Shakespeare play.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
The meaning of 'Seres'; what the Romans called the Chinese.
The silk people.
Three unique cultures came together in the Middle Ages which fuelled the rise of the west.
What are Classical, Christian and Germanic?
This Roman Essayist walks Dante through Hell.
Who is Virgil?
This religious war helped inspire the medieval romance novel.
What are the Crusades?
All of the main characters are dead by the end of this Shakespeare play.
What is Hamlet?
Both political stability and _____ were brought by the Chinese Empire to its people.
What is Cultural Unity?
When a person's guilt or innocence for a crime is determined by tests involving water or fire.
What is a Trial by Ordeal?
This is the third circle of Hell.
What is gluttony?
This section of an early book was often historiated.
What is the opened letter of each section?