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British Novels
British Plays
British Verse (poetry)
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400

"___, ____ wherefore art thou ___?"

Romeo

400

The title character makes a manlike monster from parts of cadavers and brings it to life by the power of an electrical charge.

What is Frankenstein?

400

Play about a boy who lives in Never-Never Land, a country where no child ever grows up

Peter Pan

400

Poem by Robert Browning based on a folk tale from the Middle Ages in Germany

THe Pied Piper of Hamelin

400

His plays include Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night.

Who is William Shakespeare?

800

"Something is ___ in the state of ___"

rotten, Denmark

800

A novel by Charles Dickens, largely the story of Dickens's own life. The main character is sent away to work at a very young age and grows to manhood over the course of the book

What is David Copperfield?

800

"Lay on Macduff" is a line from this play

What is Macbeth?

800

The first line of this poem is "I wander lonely as a cloud"

What is "Daffodils"?

800

An English poet of the fourteenth century, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language.

Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

1200

"Lord, what ___ these ___ be

fools, mortals

1200

It concerns a seafarer, Marlow, who is sent to the interior of Africa in search of a "mad adventure" named Kurtz.

What is the Heart of Darkness?

1200

"If music be the food of love, play on" is the first line of this play

What is the Twelfth Night?

1200

The poet's aim in this poem is to justify the ways of God to men.

Paradise Lost

1200

An Irish author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he spent most of his career in England.

Who is George Bernard Shaw?

1600

"More things in ___ and ___, Horation

Heaven, Earth

1600

A novel revolutionary that is almost entirely concerned with the actions and thoughts of three characters on a single day.

What is Ulysses?

1600

The character Shylock is from this play

What is The Merchant of Venice?

1600

"Home Is The Sailor, Home From Sea And The Hunter Home From The Hill" are lines from this poem

What is "Requiem"?

1600

He is famous for his intricate metaphors, as in a poem in which he compares two lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass.

Who is John Donne?

2000

"Was this the face that launched a ___ ___

thousand ships

2000

D.H. Lawrence's novel that was banned as obscene in both Britain and the United States, but was later overruled by the Supreme Court 

What is Lady Chatterley's Lover?

2000

Play that is one of T.S. Eliot's best-known works

What is the Murder in the Cathedral?

2000

A popular poem from the late nineteenth century by the English author William Ernest Henley.

What is "Invictus"?

2000

An Irish author of the twentieth century, known for his novels, especially Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and for his short stories, especially the collection Dubliners.

Who is James Joyce?