Taken from the back of the box:
"Played with gloriously illustrated Character and Prompt cards and a variety of quotations from Shakespeare."
This is a light game of memory and card collection requiring a familiarity with Shakespeare's plays. It is best suited to play after a dinner party. Match Prompt and Character cards to your Quotation cards to create sets. The first to match all their cards into sets wins. There are 30 sets.
There are two levels of difficulty, which give different methods of play.
The easy method requires players to complete a Shakespeare quote by filling in the missing word(s) on a Quote card, from a Prompt card and matching them to a Character card. The mechanics of acquiring cards is similar to the children's card game Go Fish.
In the advanced game the mechanics are similar to Happy Families but a good knowledge of Shakespeare is required to get you the cards you desire. If attempting to obtain a Quote card from another player one has to recite the quote in full and be "Dead Letter Perfect".
In both types of game the mechanics may well be based on children's games, but it is unlikely to appeal to children due to the subject matter.