iPhone app ShakesQuiz: Shakespeare quiz & complete works

ShakesQuiz: Shakespeare quiz & complete works presents (1) a highly challenging quiz on all things Shakespearean - the Bards works, life, era and legacy - and (2) the texts of the plays, sonnets and other poems by the poet and playwright widely acclaimed as the greatest writer in the English language.

The quiz:

Dont be dismayed by the difficulty of many of the questions: ShakesQuiz provides a hint for each.
Sometimes the hint nearly gives away the answer; sometimes the hint helps eliminate one or two answer choices; and sometimes players may find the hint itself puzzling until they make an interesting connection or have a now-I-get-it or an aha! moment.
But we think players will recognize that despite a low score they might have learned quite a lot.
(We plan to introduce question difficulty levels for future releases.) Players receive an initial allotment of hints and can replenish them via an inexpensive in-app purchase or by viewing a brief ad.
Weve tried hard to keep all of this app inexpensive or free of financial cost to make it entirely accessible to everyone.

The complete works:

`Not all complete works of Shakespeare are the same.
Weve included the 18-line poem To the Queen (or To the Queen by the Players) discovered in a notebook in 1972, though its attribution to Shakespeare may not have reached a consensus.
And weve included the play Sir Thomas More for which, though others first wrote it, Shakespeare was among several revisers and his three pages of revisions provide, apart from signatures on legal documents, the only known extant sample of his handwriting.
And you will also find two collaborations by Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen, which, though there are several other works Shakespeare co-wrote commonly included in his complete works, did not gain acceptance into the Shakespearean canon until the 20th century.
Accompanying each work is our own overview and, to introduce the characters for each play, a dramatis personae.` +

Here are the included works:

Plays:

`Alls Well That Ends Well` +

Antony & Cleopatra

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Henry 4, Part 1

Henry 4, Part 2

Henry 5

Henry 6, Part 1

Henry 6, Part 2

Henry 6, Part 3

Henry 8

Julius Caesar

King John

King Lear

King Richard 2

`Loves Labours Lost` +

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

`A Midsummer Nights Dream` +

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Richard 3

Romeo & Juliet

Sir Thomas More

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus & Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

`The Winters Tale` +

Sonnets:

Sonnets

Other poems:

`A Lovers Complaint` +

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Phoenix & the Turtle

The Rape of Lucrece

To the Queen

Venus & Adonis

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