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08/02/2009

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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
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Hamlet: Act 2 Scene 2
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"What a piece of work is man! ..."
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Hamlet: Act 2 Scene 2
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"A horse! ..."
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King Richard III: Act 5 Scene 4
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
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The Merchant of Venice: Act 1 Scene 3
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"Yound Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
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Julius Caesar: Act 1 Scene 2
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
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Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 5
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"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."
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Macbeth: Act 5 Scene 5
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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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Twelfth Night: Act 2 Scene 5
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1 Scene 1
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Shakespeare died on...
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April 23, 1616
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Shakespeare's Epitaph
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Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.
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Shakespeare's wife
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Anne Hathaway
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Shakespeare's lost play
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Cardenio
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Ben Johnson on Shakespeare
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"He was not of an age, but for all time."
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Number of sonnets composed by Shakespeare
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154
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"The beast with two backs"
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Sex
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Shakespeare theater company performed before Queen Elizabeth I
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The Lord Chamberlain's Men
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Shakespeare theater company performed before James I
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The King's Men
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Item left to Shakespeare's wife
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"My second best bed"
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Part of the sonnets are addressed to...
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"Fair Lord" or "Fair Youth"
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And the others are addressed to...
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"Dark Lady"
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How many suicides occur in Shakespeare's plays?
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13
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4 identifiable icons of England besides Shakespeare...
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Royal Family, double-decker buses, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben
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Who did Shakespeare collaborate on plays with?
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John Fletcher
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Motto above The Globe Theater
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"The whole world is a playhouse"
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Minimum cost to enter the Globe Theater in Shakespeare's time
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1 penny
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Reign of Henry VIII
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1509-1547
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Reign of Elizabeth I
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1558-1603
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Reign of James I
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1603-1625
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Outlying district South of the Thames
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Southwark
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Alternative name for The Lord Chamberlain's Men
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Lord Hunsdon's Men
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5 expressions create by Shakespeare
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1. puppy dog
2. marriage bed
3. never-ending
4. skim milk
5. love letter
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5 words created by Shakespeare
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1. gossip 2. rival 3. drug 4. glow 5. numb
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