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The Quest For Shakespeare's Sword

Week 4 Answers

Date Season SHAKESPEARE PLAY Location [1] Main Picture [2] Secondary Picture [1] Riddle / Rhyme [2] First Anagram [2] Second Anagram [2]
22nd Winter Taming of the Shrew Padua Moaning Myrtle -> Shirley Henderson -> Kate Minola  / BBC Shakespeare retold (version) Involves the production of a musical version / Line in play Sun / Moon Ten (10) Things I Hate About You Scold's Bridle (for Shrewishness)
23rd Winter Measure for Measure Vienna Mariana (1851) John Everett Millais "The most painful" (of Shakespeare's works) Isabella wants to be a nun (of the Order of Saint Clare) / silence ("you must not speak"). (1970 Estelle Kohler's Isabella turns to the audience in despair) Mistress Overdone The Ban On Love
24th Winter Love's Labour's Lost Navarre Cuckoo for Spring / Owl for Winter. (End of play) (Play likened to a "curious"-) "knotted garden") / Knot Garden Nearly two-thirds of the play is in rhyming verse (Accepted letters) / Most conspicuously poetic of all Shakespeare plays Deafinitely Theatre Box Office Loss
25th Winter Antony and Cleopatra Misenum Laurence Olivier / Vivien Leigh T.S. Eliot in The Wasteland Greek / All rest myths?! Mortal Wretch (Asp) Mark Rylance
26th Winter Merry Wives of Windsor Windsor Mistress Page and/or Mistress Ford hide / Falstaff in a linen basket ("The world's mine oyster. Which I with) sword (will open.") Queen Elizabeth I so enjoyed Falstaff she commanded him to write a play about Falstaff in love / a command that Shakespeare purportedly fulfilled in just two weeks. Bitter Pill (performed it in Swaheli 2012) Herne The Hunter
27th Winter Two Gentlemen of Verona Milan Two (in production at the Globe) Black & White Silent Film / Yi Jian Mei (China) Valentine / Speed / Crab First (Comedy) Play (?) Tony Award
28th Winter Midsummer Night's Dream Egypt "Wedding March" / Felix Mendelssohn Rik Mayall & Ade Edmonson in Bottom (Nick Bottom) Mustardseed / Mote / Cobweb / Peaseblossom Robin Goodfellow (Puck/Stanley Tucci) Love-In-Idleness