Shakespeare's Plays and Characters Trivia Word Search

Shakespeare was born and later buried in this English market town on the River Avon.

This Italian city is the setting for a feud between two families that dooms a pair of young lovers.

This rival Elizabethan playwright, author of 'Doctor Faustus,' died in a tavern brawl at age 29.

This loyal Roman mother persuades her proud warrior son not to lead an army against his own city.

This young nephew of the king is held captive and dies under suspicious circumstances.

This young noblewoman descends into madness and drowns after her lover rejects and kills her father.

This abandoned princess is raised by shepherds before her royal identity is finally revealed.

This young Athenian woman is pursued by two men after a love potion goes hilariously wrong.

This aging nobleman delivers the famous 'this sceptred isle' speech praising England before dying.

This power-hungry daughter competes with her sister for a nobleman's affection and her father's lands.

This trusting king is murdered in his sleep by a host desperate to fulfill a prophecy.

This bride is falsely accused of infidelity at the altar and pretends to be dead to clear her name.

Shakespeare wrote 154 of these 14-line poems, in addition to his plays.

One of two friends from Verona, he betrays his best friend to pursue the woman his friend loves.

Set during the Trojan War, this tragedy follows two ill-fated lovers on opposite sides of the siege.

This Roman general avenges his sons' deaths by serving his enemy a truly gruesome meal.

This king of the fairies quarrels with his queen over a stolen changeling boy.

This nobleman is executed after refusing to support Richard's claim to the throne.

This young nobleman is tricked into marrying a woman he scorns, who later wins him over through cleverness.

This noblewoman of Salisbury resists the advances of a king who besieges her castle and her honor.

This illegitimate son forges a letter to turn his father against his legitimate half-brother.

This Egyptian queen forms a legendary romance with a Roman general and dies from an asp's bite.

This blunt, loyal soldier abandons the general he serves, then dies of a broken heart from shame.

This king's jester speaks uncomfortable truths through riddles and songs throughout the storm scenes.

This banished earl disguises himself as a servant so he can keep protecting the king who exiled him.

This young nobleman is magically made to fall for the wrong woman before order is restored.

This Venetian moneylender demands a literal pound of flesh when a loan goes unpaid.

The witches' famous chant completes with 'fire burn and cauldron _ _ _ _ _ _' in a Scottish tragedy.

This nobleman defeats a hunchbacked king at Bosworth Field and founds a new royal dynasty.

This wealthy Athenian lavishes gifts on false friends, then curses humanity after going broke.

This general's devoted wife is smothered after being falsely accused of betrayal.

This romantic hero wins a wrestling match and pins love poems to trees throughout a forest.

This pompous steward is tricked into wearing yellow stockings and smiling absurdly to win his lady's love.

This powerful earl helps place and depose kings so often he earns the nickname 'the Kingmaker.'

This jealous king wrongly accuses his pregnant wife of infidelity, setting off years of tragedy.

This Scottish general is driven to murder a king by his wife and a trio of prophesying witches.

This matchmaking uncle helps arrange a doomed romance, lending his name to a common English verb.

This daughter of an exiled duke is raised on an island by her father and falls for the first young man she sees.

This amateur actor's head is transformed into a donkey's by a mischievous sprite's spell.

This determined suitor starves and humiliates a strong-willed bride into submission.

This loyal cousin follows the exiled heroine into the forest rather than stay behind at court.

This ambitious cardinal falls from the king's favor after being accused of treason and corruption.

This river runs through Shakespeare's hometown, giving the town its full hyphenated name.

This wealthy heiress disguises herself as a lawyer to save her husband's friend from a gruesome bargain.

This shipwrecked twin brother is mistaken for his disguised sister throughout a comedy of errors.

This young nobleman is tricked into publicly shaming his own bride on their wedding day.

This rebel leads a popular uprising against the crown, promising all manner of impossible reforms.

In this comedy of mistaken identity, two sets of identical twin servants share the same name.

This loyal noblewoman hides a wronged queen for sixteen years before revealing she still lives.

This spirited heroine disguises herself as a man named Ganymede while hiding in the Forest of Arden.

Shakespeare's acting troupe took this name after King James I became its royal patron in 1603.

This rival to a Roman general later becomes the first emperor of Rome after their power struggle ends.

This exiled sorcerer duke commands a spirit and a monstrous servant on his enchanted island.

This lovesick duke pines for a countess while employing a disguised young 'man' as his messenger.

This suitor borrows heavily from his merchant friend to court a wealthy heiress in Belmont.

This scheming ensign manipulates his general into believing his wife has been unfaithful.

This novice nun must decide whether to trade her virtue for her condemned brother's life.

This scheming king marries his brother's widow shortly after murdering him to seize the throne.

This hot-tempered cousin of the heroine kills a friend of the hero and is slain in revenge.

This Moorish general of Venice is driven to jealous rage by a trusted ensign's lies.

This captured Gothic queen marries the Roman emperor and secretly plots bloody revenge.

This goddess of witchcraft appears to direct the three witches in a Scottish tragedy.

This Roman general is assassinated by a group of senators, including a man he considered a friend.

This sharp-tongued heroine trades witty insults with a soldier before falling for him.

This aging British king divides his kingdom based on his daughters' flattery, then loses everything.

This Roman general's daughter has her hands and tongue cut off by her attackers to silence her.

This murdered nobleman's ghost haunts a banquet, visible only to the guilty man who had him killed.

This jealous husband disguises himself to test his wife's fidelity in a play featuring Falstaff again.

This countess mourns her brother and rejects suitors until she falls for a shipwrecked disguised woman.

This quick-witted friend of the hero is fatally wounded in a duel and curses both feuding houses.

This witty bachelor swears he'll never marry, then falls hard for his favorite sparring partner.

This mischievous fairy sprite mistakenly enchants the wrong Athenian and turns a weaver's head into a donkey's.

This wayward prince spends his youth carousing before transforming into a heroic king.

This shipwrecked prince falls in love with a duke's daughter after being enslaved and tested.

This boisterous knight drinks and carouses late into the night, annoying the household steward.

This London playhouse, associated with Shakespeare's company, was rebuilt after burning down in 1613.

This falsely accused queen collapses upon hearing of her son's death and is presumed dead for years.

This scheming daughter turns against her own father after receiving her share of his kingdom.

Shakespeare's wife carried this maiden surname before their marriage in 1582.

This Danish prince delays avenging his father's murder while famously asking 'to be or not to be.'

This meddling royal advisor is killed while eavesdropping behind a tapestry.

This airy spirit longs for freedom while serving the sorcerer who rescued it from a tree.

This younger, more agreeable sister has multiple suitors competing for her hand.

This witty lord trades barbed wordplay with a princess of France while avoiding romance, and fails.

This lean, hungry-looking conspirator convinces his friend that a great man has grown too dangerous.

This falsely accused wife in ancient Britain is believed dead after a villain frames her for infidelity.

This decisive English victory over the French, won against staggering odds, is the centerpiece of a history play.

This conspirator strikes the first blow against the Roman general in the Capitol.

This mighty Trojan prince and warrior is Troy's greatest champion until his fatal duel with Achilles.

This strong-willed woman is wooed and 'tamed' by a suitor determined to win her fortune and her hand.

This Roman senator leads a conspiracy against his friend, believing the murder serves Rome's freedom.

This melancholy philosopher delivers the famous 'all the world's a stage' speech.

This noblewoman disguises herself as a young man named Cesario after washing ashore in Illyria.

This bumbling constable's malapropisms accidentally help uncover a villain's plot.

This prince of Tyre survives shipwrecks and years of loss before reuniting with his wife and daughter.

This cousin and knight falls in love with the same woman his fellow prisoner adores.

This fiery young rebel earns his nickname for his impulsive, hot-tempered pursuit of glory in battle.

This Venetian merchant risks his life by guaranteeing a loan for a friend seeking to woo an heiress.

This fairy queen is magically enchanted into falling in love with a man wearing a donkey's head.

This 1623 posthumous collection gathered most of Shakespeare's plays into a single printed volume for the first time.

This leading actor and business partner of Shakespeare's company originated many of the great tragic roles.