Shakespeare

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1 Hamlet 103x

2 Macbeth 82x

3 Othello 72x

4 King Lear 66x

5 Romeo and Juliet 62x

6 The Tempest 56x

7 Richard III 55x

8 Julius Caesar 50x

9 A Midsummer Night's Dream 49x

10 The Taming of the Shrew 46x

11 The Merchant of Venice 44x

12 Iago 35x

13 Cleopatra 33x

14 Juliet 30x

15 Romeo 28x

16 Twelfth Night 27x

17 The Merry Wives of Windsor 25x

18 Sir John Falstaff 25x

19 Ophelia 24x

20 Lady Macbeth 24x

21 Much Ado About Nothing 24x

22 Troilus and Cressida 24x

23 As You Like It 22x

24 Henry V 21x

25 Titus Andronicus 20x

26 Desdemona 19x

27 Prospero 18x

28 Shylock 17x

29 Portia 17x

30 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 17x

31 Brutus 16x

32 Petruchio 15x

33 Antony and Cleopatra 15x

34 Verona 13x

35 Polonius 12x

36 Gertrude 12x

37 The Winter's Tale 12x

38 The Comedy of Errors 12x

39 Puck 11x

40 Timon of Athens 10x

41 Horatio 10x

42 Cordelia 10x

43 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 10x

44 Love's Labour's Lost 9x

45 Henry VIII 9x

46 Caliban 9x

47 Macduff 8x

48 Cressida 8x

49 Ariel 8x

50 All's Well That Ends Well 8x

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 1,631

Hamlet (104) Macbeth (83) Othello (72) King Lear (66) Romeo and Juliet (63) The Tempest (56) Richard III (55) A Midsummer Night's Dream (49) The Taming of the Shrew (46) The Merchant of Venice (45)

Other 638

Julius Caesar (46) Cleopatra (26) Troilus and Cressida (23) Titus Andronicus (20) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (16) Petruchio (15) Antony and Cleopatra (15) Brutus (15) The Winter's Tale (11) Timon of Athens (10)

Poetry 10

his sonnets (2) Remembrance of Things Past (2) temperate (1) 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)