Shakespeare Wordsmith
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Modern Shakespeare
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This phrase invented by Shakespeare is also the name of a Netflix reality dating show.

Love is Blind

200

A. In this play Bassanio chooses from 3 chests to win a lady who has been "richly left".

Merchant of Venice

200

HAMLET: "To be or not to be that is the ___"

Question
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Macbeth's ambitious wife

Lady Macbeth


200

The Lion King is a modern interpretation of this Shakespearean Tragedy centered on conflict between a nephew and uncle.

Hamlet

400

This phrase, which describes a futile quest and features a winged animal, appears in Romeo and Juliet.

"Wild-goose chase"

400

In this play, a Roman general returns from war to a bloody power struggle for the Roman Empire.

Titus Andronicus

400

All that glisters is not ____.

Gold

400

Titus's ill-fated daughter

Lavinia

400

A modern interpretation of this tragedy centers on a father and three ambitious children. This interpretation is a show on HBO.

Succession

600

This phrase, suggesting endless possibilites and featuring a shelled mollusk, appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

"The world is my oyster."

600

In this play, Iago decieves the tile character causing him to smother his wife.

Othello

600

In this comedy, the melancholy Jaques compares the world to a stage.

Othello

600

Falstaff's Red-nosed friend

Bardolph

600

Ten Things I Hate About You is a modern interpretation of this Shakespeare Comedy that centers on "taming" a rebellious wife

The Taming of the Shrew