Archive for June 12th, 2007

Conundrum: Ars Magna

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Via the Shakespeare Geek, we find an “amazing anagram” (which I have to say I never bothered to check):

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Becomes:

In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

That anagram has inspired this week’s Conundrum!

What well-known Shakespearean phrases can be anagramed from the following?

  1. Tall Worthless Adage
  2. Icky Backwashes Uncrowned Lord
  3. Haberdasher Elf Slots Low Motto
  4. Embrace Incoherent Hoot
  5. Many Mourned Scorn Snifter

By the way, ShakespeareTeacher.com anagrams out to Search Peacemaker Ethos. I think that’s appropriate.

UPDATE: Anagram 2 solved by Annalisa. See comments for all answers.