Googleplex
I’m always curious to see what search terms bring people to this site. Here is a list of some of the search terms that brought people here today:
- shakespeare and technology
- tudor riddles
- riddle for a waste paper basket
- plays genres
- josh lymon secret service codename
- descendants of king george vi
- shakespeare reading group
- what did the tudors find and bring back to England
- descriptive word that starts with the letter y
- knowledge in othello
- is smarter a word
- who is the more complex villain in king lear
- new book on shakespeare, author on the daily show
- mary queen of scots descendants in Virginia
- macbeth simplified language
- codependent relationship between macbeth and lady macbeth
- who influenced sir francis bacon
- venn diagram puzzles
- descendents of the tudors to present day
- fox 40 morning news riddle
- what did tudors do in there free space
- teaching shakespeare to four year olds
- henry viii riddles
- riddles in shakespeare
- lateral thinking games
- queen elizabeth “i am henry …”
- multiple choice test for king henry the 8th
- in merchant of venice two fathers in post strike rules on their daughters
- giant shakespeare crossword puzzle
- boleyn living relatives
- literacy in shakespeare’s time
- a list of twenty things that shakespeare wrote
- top 10 reasons to vote
- where can i find information on the descendants of bloody mary
- what is the coincidence that happened between shakespeare and cervantes
This is a partial list. I deleted several of the search terms, mostly looking for modern-day descendants of the Tudors.
I can tackle a few of these, and I’ll leave the rest to my readers. To the best of my knowledge, Josh Lyman’s Secret Service codename was never revealed on The West Wing. Yes, “smarter” is a word. And Bloody Mary did not have any children, and thus, no descendants.
I have taught Shakespeare to a wide variety of age groups, but never to four-year-olds. I defer to the Shakespeare Geek who is building an early appreciation for the playwright with his own daughters.
As for the Elizabeth quote “I am Henry”, I’m at a loss, though you may be thinking of the Queen’s reaction to a production of Richard II, which is about the deposing of a monarch. She was aware that the Earl of Essex commissioned the production in order to foment rebellion. Elizabeth I is said to have remarked “I am Richard II, know ye not that?”
Does anyone know which Shakespeare author was on The Daily Show? And would anyone like to address the questions about Merchant and King Lear?
November 20th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I love when you do these entries – they’re fascinating… :-)
November 20th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
They’re fun for me, too. Maybe I should make this a weekly feature, showing the best searches of the week, responding to some items not otherwise covered on the blog, and opening up others for discussion.
Fridays?
November 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
It was Stephen Greenblatt, he of Will In The World, who was on the Colbert Report. Dunno if there was a completely different Shakespeare author on the Daily show, or if the author just confused the two.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Okay, that makes sense. I even posted the video of the interview here on the blog, but I didn’t make the connection. Thanks, Duane.
Still, I do think it’s generous to refer to someone conducting a Google search as “the author”.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I like the Regular piece on Fridays idea!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Okay, let’s do it. Not today, of course, but I think we can start this next week.
Thanks for the input!