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Shakespeare “First-Lines” Quiz
Below are the first lines of Shakespeare's plays. Try to guess which play each "first line" is associated with. It's not that easy... especially for the lesser known plays.
Mouse-over the "Answer" box to find out the name of the play associated with each first line. Note: I tested this quiz using both Internet Explorer and Opera, and it worked fine. However, for some reason, it does not seem to work very well in "Firefox".
1. “Who's there?“
2. “Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York”
3. “Two households, both alike in dignity”
4. “Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?”
5. “I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”
6. “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad”
7. “Tush, never tell me”
8. “Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster”
9. “To sing a song that old was sung”
10. “I'll pheeze you, in faith”
11. “Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home”
12. “Boatswain!”
13. “Noble patricians, patrons of my right”
14. “Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure”
15. “If music be the food of love, play on”
16. “As by your high imperial Majesty”
17. “In delivering my son from me”
18. “Escalus”
19. “As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,--bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns”
20. “You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
Still seem as does the king. ”
21. “So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant”
22. “Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter of it”
23. “I wonder how the king escap'd our hands”
24. “When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
25. “Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
26. “O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention”
27. “If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.”
28. “Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits”
29. “Before we proceed any further, hear me speak”
30. “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace”
31. “Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?”
32. “Good day, sir”
33. “Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall”
34. “I come no more to make you laugh”
35. “I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina”
36. “Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives”
37. “In Troy, there lies the scene”
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2. “Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York”
3. “Two households, both alike in dignity”
4. “Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?”
5. “I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”
6. “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad”
7. “Tush, never tell me”
8. “Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster”
9. “To sing a song that old was sung”
10. “I'll pheeze you, in faith”
11. “Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home”
12. “Boatswain!”
13. “Noble patricians, patrons of my right”
14. “Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure”
15. “If music be the food of love, play on”
16. “As by your high imperial Majesty”
17. “In delivering my son from me”
18. “Escalus”
19. “As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,--bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns”
20. “You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
Still seem as does the king. ”
21. “So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant”
22. “Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter of it”
23. “I wonder how the king escap'd our hands”
24. “When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
25. “Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
26. “O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention”
27. “If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.”
28. “Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits”
29. “Before we proceed any further, hear me speak”
30. “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace”
31. “Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?”
32. “Good day, sir”
33. “Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall”
34. “I come no more to make you laugh”
35. “I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina”
36. “Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives”
37. “In Troy, there lies the scene”
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