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The Quest For Shakespeare's Sword

Week 1 Answers


Date Season

Play

Location [1] Main Picture [2] Secondary Picture [1] Riddle / Rhyme [2] First Anagram [2] Second Anagram [2]
1st Spring Hamlet Elsinore Maxine Peake / Plus many others to play Hamlet before her Lion King partly based on Hamlet / Tragedy? Death of father by uncle (but Lion King ends happily?) 1st Printed Copy (First Quarto): ‘To be or not to be, I there’s the point’ instead of 'that is the question' (Also appears at a different 'point' in the play.) Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet Kronborg Castle
2nd Spring Henry V Macedon Enguerrand de Monstrelet / Saint Crispin's Day Laurence Olivier Film Version 'Pistol' tells of Falstaff's death / 'Gower' last speaks "Sir John Falstaff" Hundred Years War This Wooden O
3rd Spring Tempest Carthage Sea Venture 1610 (Inspired 'The Tempest') Ariel (Washing Liquid Logo) (Ariel?), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand,  Setebos / Uranus moons Prospera (Helen Mirren) Duke of Milan
4th Spring Othello Venice Catch My Soul (1974) directed by Patrick McGoohan Iago (wears heart upon sleeve) Mackaw called Iago / Red Lory Parrot green eyed monster Ira Aldridge (First black Othello)
5th Spring Pericles Mytilene Marina (Mute mermaid character from Stingray) / Pericles' daughter? John Gower (Pericles is) missing from (the) First Folio / leading to persistent doubts about its authorship Temple of Diana Prince of Tyre
6th Spring King John Touraine Peter Ustinov (Prince John) & Terry Thomas (Sir Hiss) Richard Burton (as Philip the Bastard, Old Vic) Philip the Bastard / Sir Richard Plantagenet City of Angiers Magna Carta
7th Spring Henry VIII Toledo Stage canon & 29/06/1613 Margerine of Aragon John Fletcher / John Ryan (who wrote Captain Pugwash) / Both linked with Rye (East Sussex) All Is True (Alternate Title) Divorced Beheaded