A more detailed collection of cards on Shakespeare's ~40 plays. Deck asks you to name the play based on plot, characters, or setting/other information. Intended for trivia study. Message me on Bluesky or jackthebroken on all socials if something is amiss. Updated Nov/6/2025
| Title | Hamlet |
| Year | c. 1600 |
| Plot | A young prince plans revenge against his murdering uncle. |
| Setting | Denmark |
| Characters | Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Horatio, Laertes, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Yorick, Fortinbras, Osric |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Other | Shakespeare's longest play; one of the most adapted stories of all time with six theatrical film direct adaptationsQuotes/phrases: "To thine own self be true." "To be or not to be, that is the question" "What a piece of work is a man" "Hoist with his own petard" "The lady doth protest too much" "Get thee to a nunnery!" |
| Title | Henry IV, Part 2 |
| Year | c. 1597 |
| Plot | Henry’s son Hal continues to act up, and rebels still threaten the throne, but Hal comes out all right in the end and becomes King Henry V. |
| Setting | England |
| Characters | Title king, Prince Hal, Prince John of Lancaster, John Falstaff, Bardolph, Ancient Pistol, Ned Poins, Mistress Quickly, "Doll" Tearsheet, Robert Shallow |
| Genre | History |
| Other | Third play in Henriad tetralogy; the king's opening soliloquy of Act III, scene 1 concludes with the line, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" |
| Title | Romeo and Juliet |
| Year | c. 1593 |
| Plot | "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." "For never was a story of more woe / Than this..." |
| Setting | Verona, Italy |
| Characters | Count Paris, Mercutio, Tybalt, The Nurse, Rosaline, Benvolio, Friar Laurence, Juliet Capulet, Romeo Montague, Prince Escalus |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Other | The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello, translated into verse as The Tragical History of [title] by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Extremely popular and endlessly quoted: “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," “parting is such sweet sorrow,” “a plague on both your houses,” and much more. |