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Six-Letter Shakespeare Chain

Every answer to these Shakespeare-related clues will be a six-letter word. The last letter of each word will be the first letter of the next word, and so on.
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Last updated: June 9, 2019
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"To be or not to be." Arguably his most popular play.
Hamlet
"Love and constancy is dead." Arguably his least popular poem.
The Phoenix and the Turtle
Bastard son of Gloucester, half-brother of Edgar.
Edmund
Identical servant twins, one from Syracuse and one from Ephesus.
Dromio
Illyrian countess. Loved by Orsino, loves Cesario, marries Sebastian.
Olivia
City, one-time home to the manhater Timon.
Athens
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these.
Sonnet
Troilus and Cressida is set against the backdrop of this war.
Trojan War
An archaic form of 'uncle' used frequently by Lear's fool.
Nuncle
Anonymous history play of 1596, thought by some to be Shakespeare's.
Edward III
King of Scotland, killed by Macbeth.
Duncan
Country of Fortinbras.
Norway
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Court jester whose skull is famously held aloft.
Yorick
The Two Noble Kinsmen is based on this one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The Knight's Tale
Juliet's hot-headed cousin, the Prince of Cats.
Tybalt
The ___ of the Shrew
Taming
Shakespeare's contemporary, who called him an "upstart crow" in his Groats-Worth of Wit.
Robert Greene
The Comedy of ___
Errors
Lady of Milan, the unwilling object of inconstant Proteus's affections in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Silvia
This Russian-born American sci-fi writer also published a two-volume guide to Shakespeare in 1970.
Isaac Asimov
The setting of Romeo and Juliet - "fair ___, where we lay our scene."
Verona
In The Tempest, the King of Naples who aided Antonio in usurping Prospero's dukedom.
Alonso
One of the most popular alternative Shakespearean authorship candidates. He died in 1604, at least seven years before Shakespeare's last plays are thought to have been written.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Nationality of Claudius, Gertrude and Horatio.
Danish
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