Famous Lines from the Stage
From Hamlet to Cyrano, can you match each famous line back to the play it first belonged to?
What this quiz asks
- 1"To be, or not to be, that is the question" opens the most famous soliloquy of which play?
- 2"Rodrigue, have you heart?" a father hurls at his son in which play?
- 3The famous "nose tirade", improvised to mock his own profile, is delivered by which hero?
- 4"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" is sighed from a balcony in which play?
- 5Which Molière miser cries "Stop, thief!" before mourning his beloved cash box?
- 6"Cover that bosom, which I cannot bear to see" betrays the hypocrisy of which Molière character?
- 7In Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", what are the two tramps who wait around called?
- 8"Hell is other people" sums up the sealed room of which Sartre play?
- 9"Rome, sole object of my resentment" bursts from Camille's lips in which tragedy?
- 10Which play caused a scandal in 1896 by opening on the invented word "Merdre"?
