🧠 Shakespeare Quiz

Shakespeare was baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26th April 1564, and the town remains a major tourist destination in his honour to this day.

Juliet is thought to be just 13 years old in the play, making her one of the youngest protagonists in all of Shakespeare's works.

The three witches, often called the Weird Sisters, recite this chant while stirring a cauldron full of gruesome ingredients — including eye of newt and toe of frog.

The four weddings at the end of As You Like It are presided over by Hymen, the god of marriage, who appears as a masque figure to bless the unions.

Caliban's name is widely believed to be an anagram of 'Canibal' (an archaic spelling of cannibal), reflecting Elizabethan anxieties about colonialism and the 'savage' other.

The cry 'A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!' comes in the final battle scene at Bosworth Field, where Richard III was historically defeated and killed in 1485 — the last English king to die in battle.

Iago is widely considered one of Shakespeare's most compelling villains — he speaks directly to the audience in soliloquies, making the audience complicit in his scheming.

The identity of 'Mr W.H.' has been debated for centuries, with leading candidates including William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton — whose initials are conveniently reversed.

Measure for Measure is classified as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays' because it defies easy categorisation — it has the structure of a comedy but deals with deeply dark themes of power, corruption, and coercion.

The Battle of Actium in 31 BC was a real historical event, and Shakespeare closely follows Plutarch's account in depicting Cleopatra's fleet's retreat as the decisive moment that sealed Antony's fate.