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Shakespeare & Beyond

Quiz: Can you pair these Jane Austen and Shakespeare characters?

Take this quiz and test your knowledge of Jane Austen and Shakespeare! We give you a character from a Jane Austen novel, and you pick the corresponding character from Shakespeare’s plays, based on personality or storyline.

Share this quiz with your friends, and challenge them to beat your score!

On exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library: Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity takes a close look at these two celebrated authors’ literary afterlives—and finds some surprising parallels.

Onstage at Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, newly adapted by Kate Hamill

Comments

Looks like lots of fun

Carole Ruth Harris, Ed.D. — September 26, 2016