"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone."
Taylor Swift "Love Story"
"I wonder why we take from our women."
Tupac "Keep Ya Head Up"
Gnomeo and Juliet follows the story Gnomeo (a blue gnome) who has a forbidden romance with Juliet (a red gnome), and is based on which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Harry Styles or Shakespeare:
"Eternal summer shall not fade."
Shakespeare from "Sonnet 18"
Shakespeare or Hip Hop:
"Oh, how can you be so heartless?"
Hip Hop song / Kanye "Heartless"
Shakespeare Twelfth Night
"This was the most unkindest cut of all."
Shakespeare from Julius Caesar
This Disney movie, featuring a lion cub who runs away after the untimely death of his father and later faces off against his uncle to assume his rightful place as King of Pride Rock, is an adaption of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The Lion King
Olivia Rodrigo or Shakespeare:
“I thought my heart was detached from all the sunlight of our past.”
Olivia! "Happier"
Shakespeare or Hip Hop:
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”
Shakespeare Julius Caesar
"Speak now, if you speak love."
Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
"Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?"
Eminem from "Rap God"
This 2004 film takes its inspiration from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to depict a high school queen bee who gets overthrown by a previously homeschooled student in a plot to take down the mean girls.
Mean Girls
Ed Sheeran or Shakespeare:
"You and I are past our dancing days."
Shakespeare! from Romeo and Juliet
DAILY DOUBLE Shakespeare or Swift:
"I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed."
Taylor Swift "Ivy"
"How can it be said I'm alone when the world is here to look on me?"
Shakespeare Mid-Summer Night's Dream
"Then I hope this take away from my sins."
Kanye "Jesus Walks"
DAILY DOUBLE: In this movie, based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Viola disguises herself as a man to join an all-boys soccer team and accidentally falls in love with a teammate who doesn't know her true identity.
She's the Man
Shakespeare or Justin Bieber:
"From what the world may see, they try to crucify me."
Justin Bieber "Life Is Worth Living"
Shakespeare or Pop Song:
"You showed me a power that is strong enough to bring sun to the darkest days"
Pop song / Harry Styles "Matilda"
"Now you hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon."
Taylor Swift "Cowboy Like Me"
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below."
Shakespeare Hamlet
This 2023 romantic comedy follows Bea and Ben as they must pretend to like each other at a destination wedding after a complicated past left them enemies, and is a retelling of Shakepeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Anyone But You
"Oh, I hope that someday I'll learn to nurture what I've done."
Adele from "Strangers by Nature"
Shakespeare or Taylor Swift:
"My pride fell with my fortunes."
Shakespeare As You Like It