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