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Quiz about Songs From Shakespeares Plays

Songs From Shakespeare's Plays Quiz

Nearly every one of Shakespeare's plays contains one or more songs, most of them with lyrics by the Bard. See if you can match the songs to the plays they come from. Good Luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by jouen58. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
jouen58

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
119,186

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
8 / 15

Plays
962

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. "Who is Sylvia?" ("Who is Sylvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she. The heav'ns such grace did lend her that she might admired be.") Hint

As You Like It

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Alls Well that ends Well

Love's Labours Lost

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Question 2 of 15

2. "Come Away Death" ("Come away, come away death, and in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away breath. I am slain, I am slain by a fair cruel maid") Hint

Measure for Measure

Romeo and Juliet

Twelfth Night

Much Ado About Nothing

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Question 3 of 15

3. "Flout 'em and Scout 'em" and "Full Fathom Five" ("Full fathom five thy father lies") Hint

Twelfth Night

Henry IV, Part II

As You Like It

The Tempest

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Question 4 of 15

4. "Come Thou, Monarch of the Vine" ("Come thou, monarch of the vine! Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne") Hint

Henry VIII

The Merchant of Venice

Antony and Cleopatra

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Question 5 of 15

5. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?" ("Tell me, where is fancy bred? Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished?") Hint

The Merchant of Venice

Alls Well that Ends Well

Much Ado About Nothing

Love's Labours Lost

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Question 6 of 15

6. "Sigh No More, Ladies" ("Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never") Hint

Much Ado About Nothing

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Measure for Measure

Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Question 7 of 15

7. "Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day" ("Tomorrow is St. Valentine's day, all in the morning betime, and I a maid at your chamber door to be your Valentine!") Hint

Hamlet

A Winter's Tale

Romeo and Juliet

As You Like It

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Question 8 of 15

8. "Take, O Take Those Lips Away" ("Take, o take those lips away, that so sweetly were forsworn") Hint

Twelfth Night

Antony and Cleopatra

Measure for Measure

Troilus and Cressida

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Question 9 of 15

9. "Hark, Hark, the Lark" ("Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, and Phoebus gins arise") Hint

The Tempest

Troilus and Cressida

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Cymbeline

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Question 10 of 15

10. "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" ("Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude!") Hint

King Lear

Twelfth Night

As You Like It

The Winter's Tale

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Question 11 of 15

11. "And Let Me the Canakin Clink, Clink" and "King Stephen Was and a Worthy Peer" (two drinking songs). Hint

Twelfth Night

Othello

The Merry Wives of Windsor

King Henry VI, part II

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Question 12 of 15

12. "When Icicles Hang By the Wall" and "When Daisies Pied" Hint

Cymbeline

The Winter's Tale

Love's Labour's Lost

Twelfth Night

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Question 13 of 15

13. "Fie on Sinful Fantasy!" ("Fie on sinful fantasy! Fie on lust and luxury! Lust is but a sinful fire, kindled with unchaste desire.") Hint

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Measure for Measure

Twelfth Night

14. "It Was a Lover and His Lass" ("It was a lover and his lass, with a heigh and a ho, and a heigh-nonny no! That oe'r the green cornfield did pass in the springtime, the only pretty ring time.") Hint

As You Like It

Love's Labour's Lost

Romeo and Juliet

Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Question 15 of 15

15. "You Spotted Snakes" ("You spotted snakes with double tongue, thorny hedgehogs be not seen. Newt nor blindworm do no wrong, come not near our fairy queen.") Hint

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Cymbeline

The Tempest

As You Like it

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Who is Sylvia?" ("Who is Sylvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she. The heav'ns such grace did lend her that she might admired be.")

Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sung by Proteus and Thurio under Sylvia's window. Franz Schubert wrote a famous setting of this (in German).

2. "Come Away Death" ("Come away, come away death, and in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away breath. I am slain, I am slain by a fair cruel maid")

Answer: Twelfth Night

Sung by Feste in Act Two scene 4; a sad song from a funny play.

3. "Flout 'em and Scout 'em" and "Full Fathom Five" ("Full fathom five thy father lies")

Answer: The Tempest

"Flout 'em and Scout 'em" is brief ditty sung by Stephano and Trinculo, then played by Ariel on pipe and tabor. "Full Fathom Five" is a dirge sung by the invisible Ariel to Ferdinand, telling him that his father has perished in the wreck and lies at the bottom of the sea.

4. "Come Thou, Monarch of the Vine" ("Come thou, monarch of the vine! Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne")

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra

Sung towards the end of the banquet on board Pompey's galley at the end on Act II.

5. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?" ("Tell me, where is fancy bred? Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished?")

Answer: The Merchant of Venice

Sung while Bassanio makes his choice of the three caskets.

6. "Sigh No More, Ladies" ("Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never")

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

A beautiful setting by Patrick Doyle is one of the many memorable moments of Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film version.

7. "Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day" ("Tomorrow is St. Valentine's day, all in the morning betime, and I a maid at your chamber door to be your Valentine!")

Answer: Hamlet

Ophelia shocks everyone by singing this extremely bawdy song during her mad scene.

8. "Take, O Take Those Lips Away" ("Take, o take those lips away, that so sweetly were forsworn")

Answer: Measure for Measure

An atmospheric piece sung before the Duke's interview with Marianna. (Samuel Barber wrote a setting of this text for his opera "Antony and Cleopatra", which may have misdirected you Samuel Barber fans.)

9. "Hark, Hark, the Lark" ("Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, and Phoebus gins arise")

Answer: Cymbeline

Performed outside Imogen's chamber in Act II scene 3. Also set to music by Schubert.

10. "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" ("Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude!")

Answer: As You Like It

While Lear might have sung this song about winter's blast's being less hurtful than man's (or woman's) ingratitude, it is actually sung in "As You Like It" by Amiens in Act II, scene 7 at the request of the banished Duke, who also knows a thing or two about ingratitude.

11. "And Let Me the Canakin Clink, Clink" and "King Stephen Was and a Worthy Peer" (two drinking songs).

Answer: Othello

Iago sings these two drinking songs to incite the reluctant Cassio to drink in Act II scene 3 of "Othello", knowing Cassio can't hold his liquor. Verdi wrote a setting of the first song in his opera "Otello" ("In'affio, L'ugola Trinca, Tracana").

12. "When Icicles Hang By the Wall" and "When Daisies Pied"

Answer: Love's Labour's Lost

These two songs are sung at the end of the play, "When Icicles Hang by the Wall" represents "Winter"; the other, "When Daisies Pied and Violets Bloomed", represents "Spring".

13. "Fie on Sinful Fantasy!" ("Fie on sinful fantasy! Fie on lust and luxury! Lust is but a sinful fire, kindled with unchaste desire.")

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Sung while Falstaff is being tormented by the Fairies and whatnot during the Windsor Park scene. Set by Verdi as "Pizzica!, Pizzica!" ("Pinch Him!, Pinch him!")in "Falstaff".

Answer: As You Like It

From Act V, scene 3. Best known in the beautiful setting by the great English composer Thomas Morley, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

15. "You Spotted Snakes" ("You spotted snakes with double tongue, thorny hedgehogs be not seen. Newt nor blindworm do no wrong, come not near our fairy queen.")

Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sung by the fairies as a lullabye for Titania in Act II, scene 2, just before Oberon anoints her eyes with the love potion. Set by Mendelssohn in his incidental music to the play; a popular setting was also recorded by Cleo Lane.

Source: Author jouen58

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