Shakespearean Phrases

It's a well known fact that many of the colorful phrases we use in everyday life first appeared in plays by William Shakespeare. But do you remember which phrase appeared in which play?

Think you're a Shakespearean Scholar? Do you know your Banquo from your Horatio, your Viola from your Miranda? Test your knowledge and see how well you do compared to others. Ready?

Created by: kim of Romancing the Tome
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  1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  2. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
  3. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse.
  4. The game is up.
  5. All that glitters is not gold.
  6. Brevity is the soul of wit.
  7. As good luck would have it
  8. Discretion is the better part of valour.
  9. Vanish into thin air
  10. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

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