Love Languages
This lover exclaims,
"She doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
Who is Romeo?
The name of this character threatens to pose a problem for his lover who, when considering the arbitrary nature of names famously claims, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Who is Romeo?
This bad bro, known for his "honesty" is anything BUT honest.
Who is Iago?
While Shakespeare's other fathers have problems with their unruly daughters, this pop has things well in his control?
Who is Prospero?
This theater was the major outdoor theater for which Shakespeare wrote and in which he was a shareholder.
What is the Globe?
This Italian city is the location of two of the plays we've read this semester.
What is Verona?
This character shows up in outrageous attire on his wedding day to prove "To me she's married, not unto my clothes."
Who is Petruccio?
This Greek hero, best known for slaying the minotaur and loving and leaving women, is humorously made a Duke in comedy that blends classical and English sources.
Who is Theseus?
This lover makes it clear how much he believes in his love when he exclaims, "My life upon her faith."
Who is Othello?
The name of this clownish character suggests that he moves fast.
Who is Speed?
This bad bro is such a sour-puss that one character says he makes her "heart burned" every time she sees him.
Who is Don John.
This daughter elopes with her beloved rather than being forced to marry her best friend's ex-boyfriend.
Who is Hermia?
Shakespeare's company performed in this indoor theater which was a former monastery.
What is the Blackfriars?
What is Bohemia?
Shakespeare's first cross-dressing character adopts this homoerotically-charged alias when she pursues her lover to Milan.
Who is Sebastian?
The name of this character, named after a sea god in Greek mythology, suggests his changeable and fickle nature
Who is Proteus?
This lover sees something "too hot, too hot" between his friend and his beloved who he seems "paddling palms and pinching fingers"?
Who is Leontes?
The name of this character suggests his profession as a weaver but also what he becomes when transformed by magic
Who is Bottom?
This "fierce" female warns her suitor that he'd best "beware [her] sting.
Who is Katherine?
Who is Leonato?
This character tells Duke Senior that "all the world's a stage."
Who is Jaques?
The characters of As You Like It retreat into this forest named after a real forest in France which also happened to be the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother.
What is the forest of Arden?
Who is Rosalind?
The truth of Hermione's innocence is established by a message from the oracle of this Greek God.
Who is Apollo?
What is mimetic desire?
The name of this character suggests that he is the quintessential lover long before Hallmark card's were invented.
Who is Valentine?
When he tries to silence her, this fierce female tells her husband, "No, I will speak as liberal as the north."
Who is Emilia?
These two characters confirm their relationship by verifying that their father a "mole upon his brow."
Who are Sebastian and Viola?
What is a bear?
This Italian city is where Romeo goes when he is banished?
Repealed by James I in 1603, these laws governed what people could wear according to their rank and gender in early modern London.
What are sumptuary laws?
The name of this handsome cupbearer to the gods, frequently associated with homoeroticism, is adopted as the alias of Orlando's beloved.
Who is Ganymede?
Beatrice, Benedict, Orlando, Lance and Shakespeare poetically express themselves in this popular sixteenth century love language.
What are sonnets?
The name of this character is associated with St. Paul the Apostle and his emphasis on salvation by faith alone.
Who is Paulina?
This fierce female ends up having to witness the worst patriarchal nightmare imaginable after being captured?
Who is Hippolyta?
This father reportedly dies of a broken heart.
Who is Brabanzio?
The name of this beloved stage animal is coterminous with Maryland's most beloved crustacean.
Who is Crab?
This island nation went back and forth between Venetian and Ottoman forces throughout the sixteenth century, making it an apt setting for a play about faith and jealousy.
What is Cyprus?
This cross-dressing character imagines "making a willow cabin" at the gate of the woman she woos for her master by proxy.
Who is Viola?
This Greek god of marriage shows up to honor five nuptials at the end of a play.
Who is Hymen?
This common poetic mode, parodied by Shakespeare's Olivia and Rosalind among others, features a flattering catalogue of a woman's physical features or body parts
What is a blazon?
The Spanish origins of the name of this character from suggests that you're likely to encounter him while he's inebriated.
Who is Borachio?
This two word command by a fierce female makes it clear to her suitor that she is going to make him prove his love to her over his dear friend.
What is "Kill Claudio"?
This father tells his daughter's suitor, "Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she."
Who Capulet?
This animal's off-stage attack ends up reconciling two estranged brothers.
Alonzo's daughter Claribel marries the King of this African country before the action of The Tempest begins.
What is Tunis?
This character is dressed up and treated like a wealthy nobleman even though in "real" life he is a poor tinker.
Who is Christopher Sly?
As Helena pursues Demetrius into the forest she compares herself to this Greek nymph who escaped from Apollo by being turned into a laurel tree.
Who is Daphne?