The Comedy of Errors
Famous Last Words
Shakespeare Said It First
Parents and Children
Anachronisms
100

One Antipholus and one Dromio live in Ephesus, the other two live in this city. 

Syracuse

100

They have made worms’ meat of me. I have it, and soundly, too. Your houses!

Mercutio

100

Brave new world.

The Tempest

100

In the Tempest, Miranda's father is named this. 

Prospero

100

We hear the chime of this in Julius Caesar, not invented until 1283. 

A clock 

200

Most productions of The Comedy of Errors utilizes this style of comedy, named after two pieces of wood hitting each other as an exaggerated sound effect. 

Slapstick

200

So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more and less, which have solicited—the rest is silence.

Hamlet

200

At one fell swoop.

Macbeth

200

Polonius encourages his son Laertes to give ever man this, but not to be too chatty. 

 His ear

200

Cleopatra invites Charmain to play this game with balls and cues, not invented until the 15th century. 

Billiards

300

The 1957 adaptation The Merry Mix Up turns the twins into triplets to fit all members of this iconic American comedy troupe. 

The Three Stooges

300

Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will.

Brutus

300

Method in the madness.

Hamlet

300

Lear reminds this daughter that nothing comes from nothing. 

Cordelia

300

Henry VI mentions this Italian philosopher most famous for his work The Prince, not born until 4 years after the plays end. 

Machiavelli

400

"Neither ___ nor ___": a phrase pointing out a complete lack of common sense, was first used in The Comedy of Errors

Neither rhyme nor reason

400

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

Richard III

400

It’s Greek to me.

Julius Caesar

400

Hal promises to defeat this rebel and win back his father's affections in Henry IV pt. I

Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

400

In Mudsummer Night's Dream, Puck mentions this weapon's sound, not around in the play's ancient Greek setting. 

A gun

500

COE is one of two Shakespeare plays that honors Aristotle's Unity of Time, meaning it takes place in this time span.

24 Hours 

500

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

Othello

500

The world’s your oyster.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

500

Imogen ignores her father's advice and marries Posthumus in this play. 

Cymbeline

500

This Greek philosopher, known for his own rules on poetics and theatre, is mentioned in Troilus in Cressida, several hundred years before his birth

Aristotle

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