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1. Which play has a royal couple (a king and queen) dealing with the king's rocky relationship with his stepson/nephew who may be mad, the murder of a courtier, and the suicide of a young woman from the castle?
2. Which play has Bertram forcefully married to Helena in the beginning, and trying to flee her for most of the action? Their marriage survives Bertram's low attempts to bed the Italian virgin Diana and even a war!
3. Which late comedy features the married couple Posthumus and Imogen navigating Posthumus' banishment, Imogen's presumed death, and a successful plot to convince Posthumus that Imogen was unfaithful?
4. In which tragedy does a noble couple jointly decide to kill their king so that they can become royalty? She cooks up the plot and he carries it out - and they take up the throne together, to their fatal detriment.
5. In this tragedy, the title character spends the entire play married to a Venetian woman, and they survive her father's disowning her and being sent into a war zone on a foreign island. What they don't survive is a conniving liar who dupes the title character into believing his wife has been unfaithful.
6. Which tragedy features a noble couple with one child, a daughter who they try to marry off to a count - but who mysteriously "dies" on the day of her wedding, only to reappear actually dead with her true husband whom the parents would not have approved of?
7. In which history play do we meet a king and his wife Isabel, who are forcefully parted and divorced by the king's usurper? The usurper Henry sends Isabel back to France and the title king to a prison, breaking up that king's reign and his marriage in one go.
8. In which gruesome tragedy does the emperor Saturninus marry Goth Queen Tamora in Act One? Their marriage is largely a sham - Tamora is much older and has a lover who fathers her next child, while Saturninus is a childish, powerless Emperor who she leads around by the nose.
9. In which "comedy" do Bassanio and Portia marry early on, but face a quick separation and a bizarre subplot where Bassanio can't keep a promise to his new wife?
10. In which late play do the king Leontes and his wife Hermione face Leontes' unfounded wrath against her, which leads to the death of one of their children, the banishment of their other child, and a 16-year-separation before getting their reconciliation?
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