Shakespeare Flashcards

Shakespeare flashcards — the free 30

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The Tempest

Folio comedy; a romance to modern editors — Prospero raises a storm to bring his usurping brother ashore.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Folio comedy — two friends leave home for court and both fall for the same woman, Silvia.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Folio comedy — two Windsor wives make a fool of Falstaff, who is courting them both for money.

Measure for Measure

Folio comedy; a modern 'problem play' — Angelo condemns Claudio, then propositions Claudio's novice sister.

The Comedy of Errors

Folio comedy — two sets of identical twins, parted by shipwreck, collide in Ephesus.

Much Ado About Nothing

Folio comedy — Beatrice and Benedick are tricked into love while Hero is slandered at the altar.

Love's Labour's Lost

Folio comedy — four men swear off women for three years, and the Princess of France promptly arrives.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Folio comedy — four Athenian lovers, a fairy quarrel and Bottom's ass's head, all in one wood.

The Merchant of Venice

Folio comedy — Shylock's bond of a pound of flesh, undone by Portia in a lawyer's disguise.

As You Like It

Folio comedy — Orlando courts Rosalind in the Forest of Arden while she is banished and disguised as a boy.

The Taming of the Shrew

Folio comedy — Petruchio marries the unwilling Katherine and sets out to subdue her.

All's Well That Ends Well

Folio comedy; a modern 'problem play' — Helen wins Bertram as husband and he runs off to the wars.

Twelfth Night

Folio comedy — shipwrecked Viola serves Orsino as a boy, and Olivia falls for the disguise.

The Winter's Tale

Folio comedy; a romance to modern editors — Leontes' jealousy destroys, then a statue moves 16 years on.

King John

Folio history — John holds the crown against France and the claim of his boy nephew Arthur.

Richard II

Folio history — Richard exiles Bolingbroke, seizes his lands, and loses the crown to him.

Henry IV, Part 1

Folio history — Prince Hal drinks with Falstaff, then kills Hotspur at Shrewsbury.

Henry IV, Part 2

Folio history — the king dies, Hal succeeds him and casts Falstaff off.

Henry V

Folio history — Henry invades France and wins Agincourt against the odds.

Henry VI, Part 1

Folio history — the English lose France; Talbot falls and Joan La Pucelle leads the French.

Henry VI, Part 2

Folio history — Gloucester is murdered, Jack Cade rebels, and York moves on the throne.

Henry VI, Part 3

Folio history — the crown passes back and forth between Henry VI and Edward IV.

Richard III

Folio history — though its own head title in the Folio calls it a tragedy. Richard kills his way to the crown.

Henry VIII

Folio history — Wolsey falls, Katherine is divorced, Elizabeth is born; most scholars see Fletcher's hand.

Troilus and Cressida

Folio tragedy — but missing from the Folio's own catalogue. Troilus loves Cressida as Troy grinds on.

Coriolanus

Folio tragedy — Rome's greatest soldier, banished by the people, turns an enemy army on Rome.

Titus Andronicus

Folio tragedy — Rome, rape, mutilation and a cannibal banquet; the earliest tragedy given to Shakespeare.

Romeo and Juliet

Folio tragedy — a Verona blood feud kills the two young people who fall in love across it.

Timon of Athens

Folio tragedy — Timon ruins himself on gifts, is refused help, and turns man-hater.

Julius Caesar

Folio tragedy — Brutus joins the conspiracy, Antony's oration turns Rome, and Philippi settles it.

Shakespeare flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the Shakespeare flashcard deck?

The Shakespeare deck on PuzzlePage has 38 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 8 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack, which covers every deck on the site. 38 cards — the canonical size of the set, not a round number. The First Folio of 1623 prints 36 plays; Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen are Shakespeare's but were left out of it, and both are on cards here, marked as outside the Folio.

What is on the shakespeare flashcards?

Every Shakespeare play with its First Folio genre and a one-line identifier, marking where modern scholarship reclassifies it as a romance or a problem play. Cards look like this: The Tempest → Folio comedy; a romance to modern editors — Prospero raises a storm to bring his usurping brother ashore.; The Two Gentlemen of Verona → Folio comedy — two friends leave home for court and both fall for the same woman, Silvia.. The deck is written for grades 8–12 and filed under english & reading.

Can I study shakespeare flashcards online for free?

Yes. The first 30 cards of the Shakespeare deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.

Are the shakespeare flashcards accurate?

Every card in the Shakespeare deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.

Can I print the shakespeare flashcards?

Yes. The Shakespeare cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 38-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.

How should I use the Shakespeare deck to revise?

Start in practice mode and go through the Shakespeare deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.

What grade level are the shakespeare flashcards for?

The Shakespeare deck is written for grades 8–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising english & reading, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.