J D Atkinson sets a Shakespeare quiz for those who want to test their
knowledge or simply escape the World Cup for a while!
Many of us know the last words of Puck, Hamlet and other characters,
but their first words are less familiar. Can you identify the Shakespeare
characters who make their entrances with the following lines and name
the plays in which they appear?
a) A little more than kin, and less than kind.
b) In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
c) Set down, set down your honourable load.
d) What bloody man is that?
e) And have you nuns no farther privileges?
f) Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack…
g) If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
h) What country, friends, is this?
i) All hail, great master, grave sir, hail.
j) Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster…
k) Four days will quickly steep themselves in night…
l) I shall remember.
m) Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
n) How now, who calls?
o) As I remember, Adam…
p) It did always seem so to us…
q) What, have I 'scaped love letters in the holiday time of my beauty…
r) Verona, for a while I take my leave…
s) Thanks.
t) Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fate…
u) Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
v) Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?
w) If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it.
x) A strange beginning - "borrowed majesty"?
y) To sing a song that old was sung…
z) The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
