@@QuizQuestions @@startDate=February 2, 2014 --- These two close friends of Shakespeare edited the first collected edition of his plays in 1623. Heminge and Condell --- On June 29, 1613, during a performance of this play, a misfired canon ball set the Globe's thatched roof on fire and the whole theatre was consumed. Henry VIII --- The Elizabethans tried to cure this frightening disease with the inhalation of vaporized mercury salts. Syphilis --- This actress was the first woman to play Viola (Twelfth Night) on the American stage at the Boston Theatre, May 5th, 1794. Elizabeth Harrison --- This wine was the favorite of Shakespeare's drunken comedic characters Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff. Sack, a sweet wine fortified with brandy (known today as sherry). --- The Elizabethans thought this bodily organ was the seat of courage and love. The liver. --- This Elizabethan playwright, considered Shakespeare's only literary peer, was stabbed to death in a Deptford tavern in 1593. Christopher Marlowe. --- This play is so full of obscure Elizabethan references and corruptions that the famed eighteenth-century critic Lewis Theobald labelled it "a very bad one" and actually thanked God to be finished editing it. Love's Labour's Lost. --- This Earl, later Henry VII, slays the outrageous villain Richard III on Bosworth field. The Earl of Richmond --- Although Shakespeare would have not even known this planet existed, 24 of its 27 known moons are named after his characters. Uranus --- Shakespeare created three characters named Valentine. Two of the three are minor characters in Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus, but the third is one of the main characters is this early comedy. The Two Gentlemen of Verona --- Sycorax, the "blue-eyed hag" in Shakespeare's Tempest, is the mother of this half-human slave to Propsero. Caliban --- This country pop song by Taylor Swift, released in 2008, is based on the plot of Romeo and Juliet. Love Story --- This goddess of witchcraft is the ruler of the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth, although many believe that she is not Shakespeare's creation. Hecate --- In 1976 this famous Shakespearean actor won a BAFTA for his role as the title character in the BBC television adaptation of Robert Graves's I, Claudius. Derek Jacobi --- Wandering through the wilderness, this character can no longer take the hypocrisy of mankind. He is found dead in his cave -- an apparent suicide. Timon (Timon of Athens) --- This common fashion accessory came into use in England for the first time in the reign of Elizabeth. Fan --- The earliest text of this comedy is significant because it marks the first time Shakespeare's name appeared on the title page of a published play (although it was not the first published work). Love's Labour's Lost --- This play contains more disease imagery than any other play, followed closely by Troilus and Cressida. Hamlet --- In 1848, this famous English novelist helped raise money to preserve Shakespeare's birthplace by joining an acting troupe that toured provincial towns. Charles Dickens --- In this grizzly tragedy the main character kills two of his enemies and then cooks them and serves them to their mother in a meat pie. Titus Andronicus --- Infinitely greedy and exceptionally cruel, this villain schemes with his wife, Regan, and sister-in-law, Goneril, to torture Lear and Gloucester. Cornwall --- This Elizabethan dramatist, known for works such as Volpone and Sejanus (in which Shakespeare acted), killed an actor in a duel in 1598 and was nearly executed. Ben Jonson --- In this history play the King of France sends a "gift" of tennis balls to England's beloved King. Henry V --- This popular comedy is the only Shakespearean play with an Induction. The Taming of the Shrew --- This is a foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, sometimes substituted for the iambus. Anapest --- This famous actor played the role of King Claudius in the 1980 BBC production of Hamlet, as part of the famed BBC Shakespeare series for television. He then reprised the role in the film adaptation for PBS Great Performances. Patrick Stewart --- These are the only two Shakespeare plays containing no prose. King John and Richard II --- This Romantic poet was so influenced by Shakespeare that he kept a bust of the Bard beside him while he wrote, hoping that Shakespeare would spark his creativity. John Keats --- Exton, a nobleman with much ambition, believes that Bolingbroke will praise him if he carries out the murder of this king, held captive at Pomfret Castle. Richard II --- This English folk rock group borrowed the title of their debut album, Sigh No More from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Mumford & Sons --- In 1936 Orson Welles directed an all African-American cast in his version of this Shakespearean tragedy, which he set in eighteenth-century Haiti. Macbeth --- Although this play is found in the First Folio (1623), the editors accidentally forgot to mention it in the Folio's table of contents. Troilus and Cressida --- Illyria, a region on the coast present-day Croatia, Montenegro, and Albania, is the setting for this romantic Shakespearean comedy. Twelfth Night --- Which play opens with the famous line, "Now is the winter of our discontent"? Richard III --- The Clown in Twelfth Night muses, "for what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Is Quinapalus is real author? No --- Shakespeare was born in this small English town located in Warwickshire. Stratford-upon-Avon --- Thersites, the vicious, obscene and cowardly jester, is a character in this bitter satire set during the Trojan War. Troilus and Cressida --- In 1899, Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree produced the first movie based on a play by Shakespeare. Which play did he choose? King John --- This character, Richard II's uncle, praises England in Richard II with the famous tribute to England beginning with the line, "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle." John of Gaunt --- In 1709 this poet laureate under Queen Anne wrote the first annotated edition of Shakespeare's works. Nicholas Rowe --- This giant of the French Enlightenment angered the English with his scathing critique of Shakespeare, calling Hamlet "the fruit of the imagination of a drunken savage." Voltaire --- This star of 12 Years a Slave won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role as Othello in 2007. Chiwetel Ejiofor --- This book of 908 pages is the first collected volume of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. The First Folio --- White Surrey was the name of this villainous king's horse. Richard III --- Although the exact date of Shakespeare's birth cannot be confirmed, the consensus is that Shakespeare was born on April 23 of this year. 1564 --- Young Prince Hal duels and mortally wounds this honor-driven character on the battlefield in 1 Henry IV. Hotspur --- Henry Bolingbroke, the eldest son of John of Gaunt and the grandson of King Edward III, usurps the throne of this king. Richard II --- This title character was known as Caius Marcius until he took the town of Corioli in central Italy and was given a new surname. Coriolanus --- In his Last Will and Testament, Shakespeare leaves nearly all his money and property to this upstanding family member. Susanna Hall (his daughter) --- In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio calls this character the "prince of cats" because he is named after the cat in the 12th-century French fable Reynard the Fox. Tybalt --- In Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Mardian and Cleopatra play this game, popular with the Elizabethans but actually unknown to Egyptians. Billiards --- In 2009 this actor, known for his role as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games, starred as Iago in Peter Sellars' groundbreaking production of Othello, which featured a diverse cast, including the Latino actor John Ortiz as Othello. Philip Seymour Hoffman --- This Romantic poet was so influenced by Shakespeare that he kept a bust of the Bard beside him while he wrote, hoping that Shakespeare would spark his creativity. John Keats (1795-1821) --- Over fourteen film versions of this Shakespearean comedy have been produced. In 1953, MGM released Cole Porter's musical rendition starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. The movie's title -- Kiss me Kate. The Taming of the Shrew