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