The Shakespeare Challenge!

Virgo Vestalis Maxima Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30

Theme: The peace movement

Quote: "...plant love among us!

Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,

And not our streets with war!"

(Coriolanus Act III sc iii)

Next theme: Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes

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Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 09 Feb 2012, 11:07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Fiennes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYrGIQnmxo

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 09 Feb 2012, 12:41

OK then, let's change it to someone far more interesting.

Next theme: Fabio Capello

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 11 Feb 2012, 00:26

Temperance wrote:: Theme: Boris Johnson

Quote: "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." (Twelfth Night: Act I sc v)

Theme: Kate Moss

Quote: I would rather be in the company of a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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Will a stage direction do?

Fabio Capello

"Exit pursued by a bear"
Winter's Tale Act 3 scene iii

Health Reform Bill

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 11 Feb 2012, 09:38

Topic: Health Reform Bill

Quote: The safety and health of this whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscribed: Unto the voice and yielding of that body: Whereof he is the head. Hamlet, Act 1 Scene iii.

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Time Team

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 11 Feb 2012, 09:47

Theme: Time Team

Quiote: "The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral..."

(Hamlet Act II sc ii)

Next theme: David Starkey

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Theme: David Starkey

Quote: "Sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy." (Love's Labour's Lost, ACT V, scene i)

Next theme: Michael Wood

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:55

Theme Michael Wood

Quote "Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc i)

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The Oscars

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 01 Mar 2012, 08:04

Theme: The Oscars

Quote: "Well, here is my leg." (Henry IV Part I Act II sc iv)

Next Theme: Internet Service Providers

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 01 Mar 2012, 08:22

Thank heaven you managed to pull us through that one temps...

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Theme: Internet Service Providers

Quote: "Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead." (Richard III, ACT IV, scene ii)

Next theme: Davy Jones of The Monkees

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 01 Mar 2012, 22:17

Theme: Davy Jones of The Monkees

Quote: "Dead." (Antony and Cleopatra Act I sc ii)

Next theme: Norman's fruit cake.

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Theme: Norman's fruit cake

Quote: "Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour." (Richard II, ACT I, scene iii)

Next theme: Billy Connolly

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Theme: Billy Connolly

Quote: "When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room." (As You Like It, Act III, sc iii)

Next theme: the Sun on Sunday

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The Sun on Sunday

"Doubt that the Sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar" Hamlet 2, ii

Budget day

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Theme: Budget Day

Quote: "Too little payment for so great a debt." (The Taming of the Shrew, ACT V, scene ii)

Next theme: Tickets for the London Olympics 2012

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Wed 07 Mar 2012, 11:08

Theme: Tickets for the London Olympics

In every mess have folly and the feeders: (A Winters Tale: Act 4)

Next Theme: Jamaica

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Jamaica

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

The Tempest, Act 3 scene ii

Ambushes

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Theme: Ambushes

Quote: "I am surprised with an uncouth fear; A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints: My heart suspects more than mine eye can see." (Titus Andronicus, ACT II, scene iii)

Next theme: What's left of ferval's garden

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nordmann wrote:: Next theme: What's left of ferval's garden

"I know a place where the wild thyme blows
where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
quite over canopied with luscious woodbine
with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine"
A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 5, Scene1.

Next Theme: Glasgow Rangers FC

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No takers?.

"The game is up"

Cymbelline Act 3 Scene3

Next Theme: Party Politcal Conferences.

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... was tempted to go for the "sound and fury signifying nothing" one, but I'll save it for something more apt. What about:

Theme: Party Political Conferences

Quote: "You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers, That bear this mutual heavy load of moan, Now cheer each other in each other's love Though we have spent our harvest." (Richard III, ACT III, scene ii)

Next theme: The Miliband Brothers

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The Mili Band of Brothers

We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

Comedy of Errors Act V s i

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Another theme please?

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usurpers

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 12 Mar 2012, 09:31

Usurpers

"For though usurpers sway the rule awhile, Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs. Henry VI Part 3 3.3

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DNA

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Theme: DNA

Quote: "What a piece of work is a man!...how infinite in faculty! in form, and moving, how express and admirable...and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" Hamlet Act II, sc ii

Next theme: Sight-seeing

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 12 Mar 2012, 15:35

Theme: Sight-seeing

Quote: "To the monument...

To the monument!". (Antony and Cleopatra Act IV sc xiii)

Next theme: Monumental hangovers.

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From the same play and act ...

Theme: Monumental hangovers

Quote: "I am dying, Egypt, dying. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little!" (Antony and Cleopatra, ACT IV, scene xv)

Next theme: Nuns

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Theme: Nuns

Quote: "Thou sober-suited matron[s], all in black,

And learn me how to lose a winning match,

Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods."

(Romeo and Juliet Act III sc ii)

Next theme: the gallows

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Theme: the gallows

"The gallows-maker;for that frame outlives a thousand tenants"

Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1

Next Theme; Hosepipe ban

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Theme: Hosepipe ban

Quote: "In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still!" (Titus Andronicus, ACT III, scene i)

Next theme: Vestal Virgin High Priestesses

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 16 Mar 2012, 15:09

Next theme: Vestal Virgin High Priestesses

Quote: "We'll set thy statue in some holy place,

And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:

Employ thee, then, sweet virgin, for our good." (Henry VI Part I Act III sc iii)

Next theme: State Banquets at the White House

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Theme: State Banquets at the White House

"Eight wild boars roasted whole for breakfast, but twelve persons there"
Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene1

Next theme, Gambling

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 16 Mar 2012, 16:02

Theme: Gambling

Quote: "Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful." (Merry Wives of Windsor Act III sc i)

Next theme: Mothering Sunday

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Theme: Mothering Sunday

Quote: "Irreligious piety!" (Titus Andronicus, ACT I, scene i)

Next theme: Edgar Allan Poe

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:37

Theme: Edgar Allan Poe

Quote: "The Raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fateful entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements." (Macbeth Act I sc v)

Next theme: The Archbishop of Canterbury

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Theme: The Archbishop of Canterbury

Quote: "Bishop, farewell!" (Henry VI Part III, ACT IV, scene v)

Next theme: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 18 Mar 2012, 23:01

Theme: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Quote: "Here's a small trifle of wives. Alas, fifteen wives is nothing! Eleven widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one man."

(The Merchant of Venice Act II sc ii)

Next theme: Speaking in tongues

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Theme: Speaking in tongues

Quote: "Endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble babble." (Twelfth Night, ACT IV, scene ii)

Next theme: The Stone of Scone

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 18 Mar 2012, 23:19

Theme: The Stone of Scone

Quote: "Will you to Scone?" (Macbeth Act II sc ii)

Next theme: Fruity scones

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Theme: Fruity scones

Quote: "Fetch more spices, nurse.

Nurse: They call for dates and quinces in the pastry." (Romeo and Juliet: Act IV, sc iv

Next theme: Rock-climbing

(Must remember not to waste too much time on these. I spent ages looking for a suitable quote on Latter Day Saints, and then it's too late!)

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Same here - I'd just found the same quote viz:

Fruity scones

"They call for dates and quinces in the pastry."

Romeo and Juliet Act 4, Sc iv

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Theme: Rock climbing

Quote: "Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high." (Henry VI Part II, ACT II, scene i)

Next theme: William Topaz McGonagall

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 19 Mar 2012, 17:04

Theme: William Topaz McGonagall

Quote: "Was it the proud, full sail of his great verse...

Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write

Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?" (Sonnet LXXXVI)

Next theme: Squabbles

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Theme: Squabbles

Quote: "A Norman was't?" (Hamlet, ACT IV, scene vii)

Next theme: Jenson Button

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Jenson Button

we are not overhappy; on Fortune's cap we are not the very Button.

Hamlet A2 sii

Lewis Hamilton

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Theme: Lewis Hamilton

Quote: "And thou shalt be the third." (Henry VI Part III, ACT V,scene i)

Next theme: John Lewis

Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu 22 Mar 2012, 08:24

Next theme: John Lewis

Quote: "Say that I linger'd with you at your shop." (The Comedy of Errors" Act III sc i)

Next theme: Insomnia

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