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Penguin Shakespeare - Shakespeare on love

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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