Shakespeare Plays
Ms. Schreiber
11th Grade
English
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
A MidsuMMer’s
Night Dream
Much Ado
About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Othello
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Review Questions
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Romeo and Juliet
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Tragedy
Set in Verona
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet
Montagues and Capulets are sworn
enemies
Fall in love, get married
Juliet fakes her death to get away
from her family
Romeo doesn’t know it is fake and
kills himself
Juliet then kills herself
Montagues and Capulets end their
feud because of the lose of their
children
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Macbeth
• Tragedy
• Three witches tell Macbeth he one
day will be king
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth kill
King Duncan
• Macbeth kills Banquo, whose ghost
then haunts Macbeth
• Orders that Lady Macduff and her
children be murdered
• Lady Macbeth goes crazy with guilt
and kills herself
• Macduff kills Macbeth
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Julius Caesar
• Tragedy
• Caesar is warned to “Beware the Ides
of March”
• Brutus and Cassius plan to murder
Caesar
• Caesar is murdered on March 15th
(Ides of March)
• Mark Antony leads a riot at the
funeral that chases Cassius and
Brutus out of the city
• Brutus and Cassius gather an army to
fight against Mark Antony and his
army
• Cassius commits suicide on the field,
Brutus then follows
• Mark Antony and Octavius rule Rome
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Hamlet
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Tragedy
Hamlet is haunted by his father’s ghost
Claudius convinces Polonius that Hamlet is in
love with Ophelia
His father’s murderer is Claudius, the man his
mother remarried and his father’s brother
Hamlet accidently kills Polonius, Ophelia’s
father
Claudius sends Hamlet to England claiming he
has gone mad
Ophelia drowns herself
Hamlet’s mother accidently drinks the poison
intended for him and dies
Hamlet stabs Claudius with a poisoned sword
Hamlet dies from the strike of the poisoned
sword
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A MidsuMMer’s Night dreAM
• Comedy
• Adventures of four young lovers;
Hermia, Lysander, Helena and
Demetrius
• Fairies inhabit the forest
• A group of craftsmen practicing a
play are also in the forest
• Hermia loves Lysander but he
starts to fall for Helena
• Lysander and Demetrius fight for
Helena
• A servant sprinkles a love potion
over Lysander to love Hermia
• Lysander marries Hermia and
Demetrius marries Helena
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Othello
• Tragedy
• Othello is the high general in the
service of Venice
• Iago is jealous that Othello
promoted Cassio to lieutenant
• Othello elopes with Desdemona
• Iago plots against them and tells
Othello that Desdemona and
Cassio are lovers
• Othello kills innocent Desdemona
• Iago’s wife tells Othello that
Desdemona was innocent
• Iago kills his wife
• Othello kills himself
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Comedy
Beatrice and Benedick think they
hate each other at first
Claudio and Hero are going to get
married
Don John makes it look like Hero is
being unfaithful to Claudio
Claudio cancels the wedding and
accuses Hero of letchery
Hero’s family fakes her death and
hide her until the truth comes out
The truth does come out, and
Claudio agrees to marry Hero’s
cousin, it’s revealed it’s actually
Hero
Benedick and Beatrice realize their
love for each other and they wed
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Twelfth Night
• Comedy
• Viola cross dresses as a man
name Cesario
• Viola falls in love with Orsino,
who loves a countess
• Sebastian, Viola’s twin, falls in
love with Olivia
• Orsino realizes he loves Viola
and they marry
• Shows the madness of love
• Jealousy
• Mistaken identity
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Quiz
In which play does one of the main
characters drown herself?
A.Hamlet
B.Othello
C.Macbeth
Hamlet
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Ophelia goes mad with grief and anger after her
father’s death and drowns herself in the river.
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Othello
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Othello kills his wife Desdemona, she does not kill
herself.
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Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth goes mad with guilt for telling her
husband to kill Duncan and commits suicide, assumed
with a dagger.
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