Could You Be Shakespeare?
Many anti-Shakespearians argue that Shakespeare's plays contain historical, literary, philosophical, and theological references only a highly educated nobleman in Elizabethan England would be educated enough to write. Do you have what it takes to write Hamlet or Twelfth Night? Take our quiz to find out!
- 1.What is the Ides of March?
- A.
An 11th century war in the Byzantine empire
- B.
A pagan festival celebrated in northern England
- C.
March 15
- 2.With whom does the legend of Leir, an 8th century king of the Britons, originate?
- A.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- B.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
- C.
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy
- 3.The War of the Roses was a dynastic war between which two houses for the English throne?
- A.
York and Lancaster
- B.
Stark and Targaryen
- C.
Tudor and Windsor
- 4.Where is Illyria located?
- A.
The Scottish highlands
- B.
A Mediterranean island
- C.
Modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5.The sonnet was created in which country?
- A.
France
- B.
Italy
- C.
England
- 6.Which classical comedy is about twins mistaken for each other?
- A.
Plautus' Menaechmi
- B.
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
- C.
Meander's Dyskolos
- 7.Pyramus is to Thisbe as Theseus is to...
- A.
Miranda
- B.
Hippolyta
- C.
Athena
- 8."There is no ancient gentelmen but gard'ners, ditchers, and grave-makers. They hold up Adam's profession." These lines from Hamlet refer to which poetic work?
- A.
Historia Anglicana (Thomas Walsingham)
- B.
The Shepheardes Calendar (Edmund Spenser)
- C.
Of The Passioun of Christ (William Dunbar)
- 9.Which of the following is not a practice for training falcons in the ancient sport of falconry?
- A.
Depriving the bird of food
- B.
Depriving the bird of light
- C.
Depriving the bird of sleep
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