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Try your hand at this quiz about love and lovers in Shakespeare
1) With whom is Romeo in love at the beginning of
Romeo and Juliet
?
Cordelia
Rosaline
Ophelia
Portia
2) In which Shakespeare play does the line 'The course of true love never did run smooth' appear?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
All?s Well that Ends Well
Much Ado About Nothing
3) In
A Midsummer Night's Dream
, with whom does Titania fall in love after she has had the magic love potion rubbed on her eyes?
Lysander
Puck
Bottom
Quince
4) Who does Olivia marry at the end of
Twelfth Night
?
Orsino
Sebastian
Toby Belch
Cesario
5) In the film
Shakespeare in Love
, the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow provides the fictionalised Shakespeare with the inspiration for which of his characters?
Viola in
Twelfth Night
Isabella in
Measure for Measure
Beatrice in
Much Ado About Nothing
Juliet in
Romeo and Juliet
6) What are the names of the lovers in The Tempest?
Sebastian and Ariel
Ferdinand and Miranda
Prospero and Ariel
Sebastian and Miranda
7) Which Shakespeare play opens with the line 'If music be the food of love, play on...?
The Comedy of Errors
Love?s Labour's Lost
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
8) In which Shakespeare play does Lorenzo love Jessica?
The Merchant of Venice
The Winter's Tale
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It
9) Who played the lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film version of
Much Ado About Nothing
?
Kenneth Branagh and Kate Winslet
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham-Carter
Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas
10) Shakespeare's play
Troilus and Cressida
is set during which war?
The English Civil War
The Peloponnesian War
The Trojan War
The First Punic War
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