Shakespeare In Love Trivia Questions

Answer: Thomas Kent

She bound her chest with gauze to flatten herself out and to look more like a boy.

Answer: Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett previously played a lead part with Colin Firth in the film "Another Country" and has also appeared in "My Best Friend's Wedding", "The Madness of King George" and "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Answer: Ned Alleyn

This is such an funny and ironic scene. They're rehearsing the dance scenes and Viola (in drag) forgets to stay upstage. Ben Affleck's character delivers this line with the perfect arrogant tyranny of a seasoned actor working with lesser "men"! "Suffering Cats!"

Answer: 5050 pounds

Viola's father is revealed to have been a shop keeper, and hence of no extraordinary rank or noble birth. However, if his daughter marries Wessex, then his name will link Viola's father to the aristocracy. In exchange for his name, Viola's father tells Wessex that he is receiving "5000 pounds". However, Wessex then asks him to oblige him with 50 or so to settle his accounts. 5050 in total. It is this extra sum of 50 pounds that is given to Will at the end of the movie to settle Wessex's lost bet.

Answer: Colin Firth

Firth's character in the film is a fictional one, but it bears some resemblance to the real life adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh, in his plans to travel to America to profit from tobacco growing, and his laying down his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I to walk on.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth

In this scene the curtain call of the play is interrupted by Mr. Tilney. Queen Elizabeth, played only as Dame Judi Dench can, arises from her disguise, (the queen isn't supposed to lower herself to view such displays in public, when she could have the play acted for her at court) and puts him into his proper place!

Answer: His voice changed

Viola filled in for him, and she got to play opposite Will, who took her role as Romeo.

Answer: John Webster

Playwright John Webster is portrayed briefly as a boy who expresses a taste for more gory bloodshed than is seen in "Romeo and Juliet". Born in 1580 he was 16 years younger than Shakespeare and is best known for his plays "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The White Devil" which are known for their bloodthirsty nature.

Answer: Sir Robert De Lesseps

This is a scene between Sir Robert De Lesseps and Lord Wessex, discussing Viola as a potential bride. I can just see the way a girl would feel back then, being discussed as though she were livestock being sold at the auction block to the highest bidder. Colin Firth plays the role of Lord Wessex in his best stuffed-shirt manner...but alas...he will forever be Mr. Darcy to me! Sigh...

Answer: 3 pm

We see on a flyer placed on a pole outside the Curtain Theatre that there is:"by permission of Mr Burbage, a Hugh Fennyman Production of Mr Henslowe's Presentation of The Admiral's Men in Performance of The excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo Juliet. With Mr Fennyman as the Apothecary. At Three of the Clocke in th' Afternoon". (sic)

Answer: Ned

Thomas Kent, who is really Viola, is listening to Ned's instructions that ladies should be downstage, and "he" goes downstage.

Answer: He was stabbed with a knife in a bar fight

When hearing of Marlowe's death, Will thought Lord Wessex had killed him because Wessex thought that was who Viola was in love with. It turned out Marlowe got in a fight over the bill.

Answer: Judi Dench

Judi Dench won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I, making a strong impact in the film.

Answer: sickness, cure

Yet another place where love is described so eloquently.

Answer: mystery

Said about three or four times throughout the movie.