Are You a True Shakespeare Aficionado?

• The actor playing Hamlet has to speak 1530 lines in the play.
• Shakespeare wrote over 100,000 lines of drama and created 1277 characters.
• His vocabulary was one of the richest of any English writer.
• Nearly half of Shakespeare's plays were published during his lifetime.
• The First Folio was produced after his death and is the basis for following editions.
• Some critics doubt that Shakespeare wrote his plays.
• Shakespeare's plays contain small mistakes.
• Despite this, his plays are the most performed in history.
• Hamlet is 11,610 words long, while Comedy of Errors is only 1770 lines long.
• Shakespeare's works contain over 30,000 different words, double the average vocabulary of an educated person in the late 20th century.

How much do you know about the legendary playwright William Shakespeare? Test your knowledge with our Shakespeare Trivia Quiz! From the number of lines in his plays to the controversy surrounding their authorship, this quiz covers it all. See if you can answer questions about his vocabulary, the publication of his works, and which plays are the longest and shortest. So put on your thinking cap and take this quiz to see if you're a true Shakespeare aficionado!