Shakespeare

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1 Hamlet 96x

2 Macbeth 77x

3 Othello 70x

4 King Lear 66x

5 Romeo and Juliet 61x

6 The Tempest 55x

7 Richard III 53x

8 Julius Caesar 47x

9 A Midsummer Night's Dream 47x

10 The Taming of the Shrew 45x

11 The Merchant of Venice 40x

12 Cleopatra 33x

13 Iago 32x

14 Juliet 29x

15 Romeo 28x

16 Twelfth Night 27x

17 The Merry Wives of Windsor 24x

18 Much Ado About Nothing 24x

19 Sir John Falstaff 24x

20 Troilus and Cressida 24x

21 Lady Macbeth 23x

22 As You Like It 21x

23 Titus Andronicus 20x

24 Ophelia 20x

25 Henry V 20x

26 Prospero 18x

27 Portia 17x

28 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 17x

29 Shylock 15x

30 Petruchio 15x

31 Desdemona 15x

32 Brutus 14x

33 Antony and Cleopatra 14x

34 Verona 13x

35 The Comedy of Errors 12x

36 The Winter's Tale 12x

37 Puck 11x

38 Gertrude 10x

39 Cordelia 10x

40 Timon of Athens 9x

41 Polonius 9x

42 Love's Labour's Lost 9x

43 Henry VIII 9x

44 Cressida 8x

45 All's Well That Ends Well 8x

46 Marc Antony 8x

47 Pericles 7x

48 Macduff 7x

49 Horatio 7x

50 Caliban 7x

Sample Clues

I included a Norwegian guy in this play & dubbed Osric "a fantastic fop"; the ending is a whit of a bummer

Hamlet

Their 1st exit line is "Fair is foul, & foul is fair: Hover through the fog & filthy air"

Macbeth

I have a line in this 1604 tragedy: "Loved not wisely but too well"... dost thou think it over the top?

Othello

A 1994 royal Disney film with serious uncle/nephew issues becomes a royal tragedy with serious daddy/ daughter issues

King Lear

John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after

Romeo and Juliet

Sub-Areas

Shakespeare 1,496

Hamlet (97) Macbeth (78) Othello (70) King Lear (66) Romeo and Juliet (62) The Tempest (55) Richard III (53) A Midsummer Night's Dream (47) The Taming of the Shrew (45) The Merchant of Venice (41)

Other 565

Julius Caesar (43) Cleopatra (26) Troilus and Cressida (23) Titus Andronicus (20) Petruchio (15) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (15) Antony and Cleopatra (14) Brutus (13) The Winter's Tale (11) The Merry Wives of Windsor (9)

Poetry 9

his sonnets (2) Remembrance of Things Past (2) a summer's day (a summer day accepted) (1) blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) (1) Measure for Measure (1) Julius Caesar (1) Nothing like the sun (1)

Children's Literature 4

Twins (1) the Montagues & the Capulets (1) to melt (1) Isadora Duncan (1)

American Literature 2

Gertrude Stein (1) Twice-Told Tales (1)

British Literature 2

Rome (1) Julius Caesar (1)