Shakespeare Quizzes

Test your general knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays, characters, quotes, and plots.

Test what you know about Shakespeare's life — his birth in Stratford, his family, the Globe, his death in 1616 and the First Folio.

Can you match the quote to the play? 15 famous Shakespeare lines — do you know which play each one comes from?

Identify which play each Shakespearean insult comes from.

Guess the Shakespeare play from the emojis. Choose difficulty and number of questions.

Take our Shakespeare personality quiz and find out which character you are — Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, Puck, Iago and more. 10 questions, 8 results.

How well do you know Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark? Questions on the ghost, Ophelia, the play-within-a-play, Claudius's guilt and the final bloodbath.

Test your knowledge of Macbeth, Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. Questions on the witches, Duncan's murder, Lady Macbeth and the play's key scenes.

Test your knowledge of Othello, Shakespeare's tragedy of manipulation and jealousy. Questions on Iago's plot, Desdemona, Cyprus and the fatal handkerchief.

Test your knowledge of King Lear. Fifteen questions on the three daughters, Cordelia's banishment, Edgar, Gloucester's blinding and the storm on the heath.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Questions on Verona's feuding families, the balcony scene, Mercutio's death, Friar Laurence's plan and the fatal tomb.

How well do you know Shakespeare's Roman tragedy? Questions on the conspiracy, the Capitol assassination, Antony's funeral oration, the Battle of Philippi, and the characters who bring Rome to civil war.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's tragedy of empire and desire. Questions on Cleopatra's character, the Battle of Actium, Enobarbus's famous descriptions, the conflict between Rome and Egypt, and the play's ending.

Ten questions on Coriolanus, his mother Volumnia, his banishment, and his alliance with Rome's enemies.

Ten questions on Titus, Tamora's revenge, Aaron's plotting and the play's brutal sequence of horrors.

Ten questions on Timon's lavish generosity, his ruinous fall and his bitter retreat from humanity.

Ten questions on the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida's affair, Ulysses's politics and Hector's death.

Test your knowledge of The Tempest, Shakespeare's most magical play. Questions on Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, the enchanted island and the play's secrets.

Test your knowledge of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Questions on Puck, Titania, Bottom and the four young lovers lost in Shakespeare's enchanted forest.

Test your knowledge of Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's wittiest comedy. Questions on Beatrice, Benedick, the deception plot and Dogberry's watch.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's great comedy of mistaken identity. Questions on Viola's disguise, Malvolio's yellow stockings, the forged letter, Feste the fool, and the tangled loves of Illyria.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy. Questions on Rosalind's disguise as Ganymede, Orlando's love poems, Jaques and the seven ages of man, Touchstone, and the Forest of Arden.

Test your knowledge of The Merchant of Venice. Questions on Shylock, the three caskets, Portia's courtroom disguise and Shakespeare's most debated play.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's boisterous comedy of courtship and control. Questions on Katherina and Petruchio, the induction with Christopher Sly, Bianca's suitors, and the wager at the end.

Ten questions on Angelo's abuse of power, Isabella's dilemma, the Duke's disguise and the bed-trick.

Ten questions on Leontes's jealousy, Perdita's abandonment in Bohemia, Autolycus and Hermione's statue.

Ten questions on Helena's cure, the bed-trick, Bertram's conditions and the play's complicated resolution.

Ten questions on the two Antipholuses, the two Dromios, mistaken identity and Aegeon's race against death.

Ten questions on Falstaff's schemes, the wives' revenge, Ford's jealousy and Anne Page's secret marriage.

Ten questions on Navarre's vow of study, the Princess's visit, the Muscovite disguise and the play's unusual ending.

Ten questions on Valentine, Proteus, their loves, betrayals and the journey from Verona to Milan.

Ten questions on Imogen, the wager plot, Iachimo's deception and the tangled identities of Cymbeline.

Ten questions on Pericles's seafaring adventures, the riddle of Antioch, Marina's ordeal and the family's reunion.

Ten questions on Richard II's fall from power, Bolingbroke's rise and John of Gaunt's famous speech.

Ten questions on Falstaff, Prince Hal, Hotspur's rebellion and the Battle of Shrewsbury.

Ten questions on Falstaff's downfall, Hal's transformation into Henry V and the rejection scene.

Ten questions on Henry V's invasion of France, the Agincourt speech and the famous characters of the campaign.

Ten questions on Talbot, Joan la Pucelle, the Wars of the Roses and England's wars in France.

Ten questions on the fall of Gloucester, Jack Cade's rebellion and the rise of the Duke of York.

Ten questions on the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV's rise to the throne and Richard of Gloucester's scheming.

Ten questions on Cardinal Wolsey's rise and fall, Katherine's trial, Anne Boleyn and the birth of Elizabeth.

Ten questions on Arthur's claim to the throne, the Bastard Faulconbridge, Hubert's dilemma and the fall of King John.

Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's most charismatic villain. Questions on Richard's opening soliloquy, the wooing of Lady Anne, the princes in the Tower, Buckingham, the Battle of Bosworth Field, and the play's famous lines.