Romeo and Juliet - Quiz
Romeo and Juliet
  • 1. Who directed the 2009 production of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe?
A) Sam Gold
B) Robert Icke
C) Dominic Dromgoole
D) Jamie Lloyd
  • 2. Who played Romeo in the 2009 Shakespeare's Globe production?
A) Noah Jupe
B) Adetomiwa Edun
C) Tom Holland
D) Orlando Bloom
  • 3. Who played Juliet in the 2009 Shakespeare's Globe production?
A) Rachel Zegler
B) Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
C) Condola Rashad
D) Ellie Kendrick
  • 4. How many regular performances did the 2013 Broadway production run for?
A) 93
B) 100
C) 27
D) 12
  • 5. Which theatre hosted the 2013 Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet?
A) Richard Rodgers Theatre
B) Globe Theatre
C) Duke of York's Theatre
D) Harold Pinter Theatre
  • 6. Who starred as the leads in the 2013 Broadway production?
A) Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
B) Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe
C) Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler
D) Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad
  • 7. Who directed the West End production that opened on 11 May 2024?
A) Dominic Dromgoole
B) Robert Icke
C) Jamie Lloyd
D) Sam Gold
  • 8. Which theatre hosted the production starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers?
A) Richard Rodgers Theatre
B) Duke of York's Theatre
C) Shakespeare's Globe
D) Harold Pinter Theatre
  • 9. Who provided the music for the Fall 2024 Broadway production?
A) Sonya Tayeh
B) Dominic Dromgoole
C) Jamie Lloyd
D) Jack Antonoff
  • 10. Who was responsible for the movement in the Fall 2024 Broadway production?
A) Jamie Lloyd
B) Sam Gold
C) Sonya Tayeh
D) Jack Antonoff
  • 11. Which record did the Fall 2024 Broadway production achieve?
A) Youngest ticket buying audience in Broadway history
B) Most Tony Award wins
C) Most expensive production cost
D) Longest running revival
  • 12. Which award body nominated the Fall 2024 production for Best Revival of a Play?
A) Drama League Awards
B) Golden Globes
C) Academy Awards
D) Grammy Awards
  • 13. What historic achievement did the Fall 2024 production receive from the Tony Awards?
A) Longest wait between revivals
B) First Tony nomination for a revival of this play
C) Most nominations for a single revival
D) First Tony win for a revival of this play
  • 14. Who is scheduled to direct the production opening in March 2026?
A) Dominic Dromgoole
B) Robert Icke
C) Sam Gold
D) Jamie Lloyd
  • 15. Where is the production starring Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe scheduled to open?
A) Duke of York's Theatre
B) Richard Rodgers Theatre
C) Shakespeare's Globe
D) Harold Pinter Theatre
  • 16. Which performer received a nomination for Distinguished Performance at the Drama League Awards?
A) Tom Holland
B) Adetomiwa Edun
C) Noah Jupe
D) Kit Connor
  • 17. What phrase is often cited as evidence that the lovers are fated to die?
A) fated by heaven
B) cursed by nature
C) doomed by blood
D) star-cross'd
  • 18. Who suggests that the characters' personalities align with the Elizabethan belief in the four humours?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Caroline Spurgeon
C) Ruth Nevo
D) John W. Draper
  • 19. How is Tybalt categorized according to the four humours?
A) choleric
B) phlegmatic
C) melancholic
D) sanguine
  • 20. What do some scholars call the play due to the high degree of chance involved?
A) an emotional melodrama
B) a philosophical treatise
C) a satirical comedy
D) a historical drama
  • 21. What moral dilemma do the lovers face regarding their imagery?
A) loyalty to religion or loyalty to passion
B) loyalty to family or loyalty to love
C) loyalty to self or loyalty to state
D) loyalty to friends or loyalty to kin
  • 22. What is the result of the characters recognizing their folly at the end of the play?
A) the prince is overthrown
B) the lovers are forgotten
C) things return to the natural order
D) the families continue the feud
  • 23. Which author recommended the use of metaphors to test a person's feelings?
A) Baldassare Castiglione
B) William Shakespeare
C) Arthur Brooke
D) Christopher Marlowe
  • 24. What primary communication tool do Romeo and Juliet use when they first meet?
A) Prose
B) Direct confession
C) Soliloquy
D) Metaphor
  • 25. What happens to the religious metaphors of Christ's resurrection found in the source work?
A) Shakespeare expands them
B) Shakespeare emphasizes them
C) Shakespeare mocks them
D) Shakespeare removes them
  • 26. In the balcony scene, how does Shakespeare change the interaction from Brooke's version?
A) Romeo overhears Juliet's soliloquy
B) The nurse interrupts them
C) Romeo speaks his soliloquy alone
D) Juliet speaks directly to Romeo
  • 27. How does Capulet describe Juliet's faked death?
A) As having deflowered his daughter
B) As a tragic accident
C) As a judgment from God
D) As a punishment for her disobedience
  • 28. What object does Juliet compare to a lover right before her suicide?
A) Romeo's letter
B) Romeo's dagger
C) Romeo's ring
D) Romeo's cloak
  • 29. Which specific event does Juliet's Nurse mention that helps date a line in the play to 1591?
A) A lunar eclipse in Verona
B) The Dover Straits earthquake
C) The death of a prince
D) The Great Fire of London
  • 30. Stylistic similarities to which play support a date of composition around 1594–95?
A) Macbeth
B) The Tempest
C) Hamlet
D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 31. What term is used to describe the Q1 edition of the play due to its numerous textual differences?
A) The foul papers
B) A bad quarto
C) The prompt book
D) A lost manuscript
  • 32. Who formulated the theory that Q1 was reconstructed from the imperfect memories of actors?
A) T. J. B. Spencer
B) Alexander Pope
C) Alfred Pollard
D) Nicholas Rowe
  • 33. What is the latest possible date for the play's composition based on the appearance of Q1?
A) 1599
B) 1591
C) 1596
D) 1623
  • 34. Who printed the superior Q2 edition in 1599?
A) Thomas Creede
B) William Shakespeare
C) Cuthbert Burby
D) John Danter
  • 35. How much longer is Q2 compared to Q1?
A) About 500 lines
B) About 800 lines
C) About 1200 lines
D) About 100 lines
  • 36. What are Shakespeare's pre-performance drafts commonly called?
A) Folio drafts
B) Prompt books
C) Bad quartos
D) Foul papers
  • 37. Which edition served as the primary base for the 1623 First Folio text?
A) Q2
B) Q4
C) Q1
D) Q3
  • 38. Who produced the first modern version of the play in 1709 that took into account several Folios and Quartos?
A) T. J. B. Spencer
B) Alexander Pope
C) Nicholas Rowe
D) Alfred Pollard
  • 39. Which editor began the tradition of adding stage directions from Q1 to Q2?
A) Nicholas Rowe
B) Alexander Pope
C) Thomas Creede
D) John Danter
  • 40. In which period did fully annotated editions of the play first appear?
A) Romantic period
B) Elizabethan period
C) Victorian period
D) Modern period
  • 41. In which city is the play set?
A) Venice
B) Rome
C) Florence
D) Verona
  • 42. Who wrote 'The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet' in 1562?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Matteo Bandello
C) Arthur Brooke
D) William Painter
  • 43. Which character does Romeo originally love before meeting Juliet?
A) The Nurse
B) Lady Capulet
C) Rosaline
D) Bianca
  • 44. What is the penalty for breaching the peace in Verona as declared by Prince Escalus?
A) A heavy fine
B) Exile
C) Death
D) Imprisonment
  • 45. Who kills Mercutio?
A) Benvolio
B) Paris
C) Tybalt
D) Romeo
  • 46. How does Romeo die?
A) He is killed by Paris
B) He is executed by the Prince
C) He stabs himself with a dagger
D) He drinks poison
  • 47. Which character serves as Romeo's servant and brings him news of Juliet's 'death'?
A) Mercutio
B) Benvolio
C) Friar John
D) Balthasar
  • 48. Who does Romeo kill at the Capulet crypt?
A) Tybalt
B) Montague
C) Paris
D) Capulet
  • 49. What happens to the feud between the families at the end of the play?
A) The families leave Verona
B) The families reconcile
C) The feud continues
D) The Prince executes both families
  • 50. In what year was the first quarto version of the play published?
A) 1591
B) 1562
C) 1601
D) 1597
  • 51. Which character is Romeo's cousin who tries to comfort him about his lovesickness?
A) Paris
B) Tybalt
C) Benvolio
D) Mercutio
  • 52. Who helped Romeo and Juliet get secretly married?
A) The Nurse
B) Friar Laurence
C) Benvolio
D) Friar John
  • 53. What celestial body does Juliet tell Romeo not to swear by?
A) The stars
B) The sun
C) The North Star
D) The moon
  • 54. Who was the earliest known critic of the play?
A) John Dryden
B) Nicholas Rowe
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Samuel Pepys
  • 55. Which character did John Dryden praise for showing Shakespeare's best skill?
A) Mercutio
B) Juliet
C) Friar Laurence
D) Romeo
  • 56. How many references to time are found in the play?
A) 10
B) 50
C) 103
D) 200
  • 57. Who considered Romeo and Juliet to be one of Shakespeare's most pleasing plays?
A) Lord Kames
B) Samuel Pepys
C) Charles Gildon
D) Samuel Johnson
  • 58. What did Arthur Brooke's poems span?
A) One week
B) Two years
C) Four to six days
D) Nine months
  • 59. What did Richard Green Moulton argue led to the lovers' deaths?
A) The stars
B) Accident
C) Character flaw
D) The feuding families
  • 60. What poetic form does the prologue of the play take?
A) A Petrarchan sonnet
B) A 14-line Shakespearean sonnet
C) A series of rhyming couplets
D) A free verse monologue
  • 61. Who uses a unique blank verse form that matches colloquial speech?
A) Mercutio
B) Romeo
C) Friar Laurence
D) The Nurse
  • 62. How many puns and wordplays does scholar Molly Mahood identify in the play?
A) Exactly 100
B) Fewer than 50
C) More than 500
D) At least 175
  • 63. What type of language does Juliet use when speaking about Paris?
A) Formal language
B) Slang and colloquialisms
C) Punning and wordplay
D) Monosyllabic words
  • 64. Most of Romeo and Juliet is written in which specific verse form?
A) Prose throughout
B) Free verse
C) Blank verse
D) Petrarchan sonnets
  • 65. Who does Shakespeare primarily use prose for in the play?
A) The common people
B) The romantic leads
C) The royalty
D) The villains
  • 66. What does early psychoanalytic criticism identify as the root of Romeo's actions?
A) Divine intervention
B) Religious zealotry
C) Economic instability
D) Impulsiveness
  • 67. Which critic viewed Romeo's dream as a wish-fulfilling fantasy including oral, phallic, and oedipal stages?
A) Norman Holland
B) Julia Kristeva
C) Coppélia Kahn
D) Dympna Callaghan
  • 68. Feminist critics attribute the blame for the family feud to what?
A) The greed of the servants
B) Religious conflicts
C) Verona's patriarchal society
D) The lack of law enforcement
  • 69. When Romeo kills Tybalt, what does he regret becoming?
A) Unmanly
B) Traitorous
C) Effeminate
D) Cowardly
  • 70. Who wrote 'Queering the Renaissance' and examined the sexuality of Mercutio and Romeo?
A) Julia Kristeva
B) Norman Holland
C) Jonathan Goldberg
D) Coppélia Kahn
  • 71. Who introduced the balcony scene in 1524?
A) Thomas Otway
B) Da Porto
C) William Shakespeare
D) David Garrick
  • 72. How did Da Porto describe the moon during the balcony scene?
A) A crescent shape
B) Non-existent
C) Hidden behind clouds
D) Unusually bright
  • 73. Who expanded the balcony scene a few decades after Da Porto?
A) Garrick
B) Bandello
C) Leveen
D) Shakespeare
  • 74. What item did Julia ask Romeo to bring to her window in Bandello's version?
A) A rope ladder
B) A wooden ladder
C) A torch
D) A silk rope
  • 75. What does Shakespeare's original play mention instead of a balcony?
A) A garden wall
B) A terrace
C) A window
D) A rooftop
  • 76. Who chose to use a balcony in his 18th-century adaptation of Romeo and Juliet?
A) Da Porto
B) Thomas Otway
C) Bandello
D) David Garrick
  • 77. Who suggested that David Garrick used a balcony in his adaptation?
A) Leveen
B) Shakespeare
C) Otway
D) Bandello
  • 78. What does the text say about the servants in Bandello's version after Romeo arrives?
A) They discreetly withdraw
B) They run for help
C) They fight each other
D) They stay to listen
  • 79. Which other play is mentioned as being ranked with Romeo and Juliet as one of Shakespeare's most performed plays?
A) Macbeth
B) King Lear
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 80. Which acting company was certainly the first to perform Romeo and Juliet?
A) The King's Company
B) The Hallam Company
C) The Lord Chamberlain's Men
D) The Duke's Company
  • 81. Which actor is named in the Second Quarto instead of Peter in Act V?
A) Richard Burbage
B) Thomas Betterton
C) Henry Harris
D) Will Kemp
  • 82. In which country was a shortened version of Romeo and Juliet performed in 1604?
A) France
B) United States
C) Germany
D) Italy
  • 83. What event caused all theatres to be closed down on 6 September 1642?
A) The Puritan government
B) A major fire
C) The death of the monarch
D) The plague
  • 84. Who was probably the first woman to play Juliet professionally?
A) George Anne Bellamy
B) Ellen Terry
C) Mary Saunderson
D) Charlotte Cushman
  • 85. In Thomas Otway's 1679 adaptation, what is the new setting?
A) Renaissance Verona
B) 19th century Venice
C) Modern London
D) Ancient Rome
  • 86. Who played the apothecary in the earliest known North American production in 1730?
A) Joachimus Bertrand
B) George Crichton Miln
C) Edwin Booth
D) David Garrick
  • 87. Who described Charlotte Cushman's Romeo as a "living, breathing, animated, ardent human being"?
A) The New York Gazette
B) The Times
C) Queen Victoria
D) David Garrick
  • 88. Which production is considered an archetype of the pictorial style?
A) Ernesto Rossi's 1869 production
B) Henry Irving's 1882 production
C) George Crichton Miln's 1890 production
D) Edwin Booth's 1869 production
  • 89. Which actor is credited with laying the groundwork for a more natural, less showy portrayal of Shakespeare?
A) Henry Irving
B) Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
C) Samuel Phelps
D) Edwin Booth
  • 90. What was the first year Romeo and Juliet was staged in Italy?
A) 1826
B) 1814
C) 1847
D) 1869
  • 91. Who produced the successful 1869 adaptation in Milan?
A) Cesare della Valle
B) Gaetano Barbieri
C) Ernesto Rossi
D) Michele Leoni
  • 92. Which company brought the first professional performance of the play to Japan?
A) The Hallam Company
B) The Duke's Company
C) George Crichton Miln's company
D) The King's Company
  • 93. Which actor performed as Romeo in the 1662 adaptation by Sir William Davenant?
A) David Garrick
B) Spranger Barry
C) Henry Harris
D) Thomas Betterton
  • 94. In 1923, who played the role of Romeo at Henry Miller's Theatre?
A) Rollo Peters
B) Brian Aherne
C) Orson Welles
D) Basil Rathbone
  • 95. Which actress revived the play in 1933 and took it on a nationwide tour?
A) Peggy Ashcroft
B) Judi Dench
C) Katharine Cornell
D) Jane Cowl
  • 96. What was a notable inclusion in the 1934 Broadway production of the play?
A) A comedic intermission
B) A modern ending
C) A musical score
D) The Prologue
  • 97. Which director removed around one-third of the text in his 1960 production?
A) Franco Zeffirelli
B) John Gielgud
C) Peter Brook
D) Neil Bartlett
  • 98. In the 1986 Royal Shakespeare Company production, how did Romeo commit suicide?
A) By dagger
B) By a switchblade
C) By hypodermic needle
D) By poison
  • 99. Which actress played Juliet in Neil Bartlett's 1995 production?
A) Jane Cowl
B) Peggy Ashcroft
C) Emily Woof
D) Judi Dench
  • 100. What setting was used for the 1997 production by the Folger Shakespeare Theatre?
A) A typical suburban world
B) A historical Victorian setting
C) A modern rock concert
D) A mid-European country
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