10 Questions: Shakespeare in Love Multiple Choice Quiz | Movies

Answer: 4

"Romeo and Juliet" is the actual play performed. Ned Allen says that he was "Henry the Sixth", John Webster says that they cut his head off in "Titus Andronicus" and at the end of the film, Will is commissioned to write a comedy for "Twelfth Night". "Moneylender Reveng'd", "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter", "Romeo and Rosalind" and "One Gentlemen of Verona" do not count. "Moneylender Reveng'd" is attributed to, but not a real title of, "The Merchant of Venice". "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" and "Romeo and Rosalind" were made up for the film, to fit in with the story of Shakespeare's creation of "Romeo and Juliet". Finally, Shakespeare's play is entitled "Two Gentlemen of Verona".

He only says the name "One Gentleman of Verona" because Henslowe has only half paid him for the play.

Answer: Hugh Fennyman

Ned Allen was the Elizabethan equivalent to Tom Cruise. Richard Burbage and William Shakespeare shared ownership in the Curtain Theatre and its acting company. Philip Henslowe owned not only a theatre, but also a chain of brothels and a starching company.

Answer: 1800

When calculating how much money he can make from the performance, Mr Fennyman says: "500 groundlings at tuppence a head, 400 backsides at threepence... 2 perfomances for safety". Hence, 1800 "tickets" are expected to be sold to the two performances.
He also comments that at each performance 200 people will buy cushions for an extra penny. Having made his calculations, his assistant, Mr Frieze agrees that he will make "20 pounds, to the penny".

Answer: Moth

You see his title, "Doctor Moth" on one of the many chalkboards outside his office. Others include "Priest of Psyche" and "Interpreter of Dreams". Will procures a bangle from Dr Moth, which he proceeds to give to Rosalind at Whitehall. It is this bangle that ends up getting him involved in the brawl with Burbage, which inspires the fight with Tybalt in the actual play.

Answer: Pink

Although most Elizabethan brothels would not have had the funds to paint their walls pink, this is nonetheless their colour in the movie. This was a deliberate choice by the director, again putting a modern spin on the story.

Answer: Paris

Count Paris is not only never mentioned, but also has no lines in the film. He is only seen lying on the floor in the final scenes of the play, and then standing behind Viola after the play. After Will first meets Viola at the dance, you hear the line "Gregory remember thy washing blow" at the following morning's rehearsal. Benvolio's name is shouted at the beginning of the duel which occurs during the actual play.

This is the only time the name is heard. The stage manager tells Henslowe that there is a fight between Mercutio and Tybalt, and that Romeo kills him.

This is before Henslowe, the stage manager and his dog are all kicked out of the theatre by Mr Fennyman for his prattling.

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: Silly

"They make it pretty, they make it comic, or they make it lust. They cannot make it true". After Elizabeth makes this statement, Viola says that she believes that there is one poet who can. Wessex, with great pride, says that it is impossible, and is countered by Will, who is dressed as "Miss Willimina", Lady Viola's country cousin.

As such, a wager of 50 pounds is placed on whether or not a play can show the very truth and nature of love; a wager won by Will.

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: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

The one line that everyone knows from the play is never actually said by the actor playing Juliet. In the scene, which alternates between Sam and Viola rehearsing on stage, and Will and Viola reading lines in bed, Will says the immortal "Romeo, Romeo," with Sam only chiming in in time for "Deny thy father and refuse thy name". "A thousand..." comes in during the same scene. "Good pilgrim..." occurs during the rehearsal just after Will and Viola's first night together. "Parting..." is the line Sam says to Will, realising his voice has broken.