Archive for November 19th, 2008

Googleplex

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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?