{"id":1465,"date":"2009-05-26T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:14:03","slug":"conundrum-shakespeare-invites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1465","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Shakespeare Invites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for the good feedback about last week’s invite rhymes for the Best of the Bard<\/a> and Henry VIII<\/a> invites. The Shakespeare invites don’t usually involve poetry, but I do like to include a tagline to catch the interest of group members. Since I haven’t actually organized a reading in some time, I could at least share with you some of the taglines I’ve used. And since there are a few Shakespeare lovers who read this blog, I thought we could make a game out of it.<\/p>\n

Can you identify the fifteen plays represented by the taglines below?<\/p>\n

1. Bundle up, head on over, and join us as we catch winter by its tale. Hot cocoa will be served.<\/p>\n

2. You like it! You really like it!<\/p>\n

3. Everybody dies.<\/p>\n

4. Come join us at our favorite Bavarian beerhouse as we travel to an austere statehouse, a rowdy whorehouse, and a dank jailhouse.<\/p>\n

And then we’re gonna read a play.<\/p>\n

5. Revenge is a beach.<\/p>\n

6. Witches! Ghosts! Swordplay! Intrigue! Betrayal! Treachery! And the cold-blooded murder of a benefactor! Come join in the fun, as we read the play that dares not speak its name.<\/p>\n

7. An afternoon to read. A lifetime to master.<\/p>\n

8. We all know what happens when the children of rival families fall in love. But what happens when the rulers of rival countries fall in love?<\/p>\n

9. What better way to spend an afternoon than with Rumor, Blunt, Shallow, Silence, Fang, Snare, Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, Pistol, Quickly, and Doll?<\/p>\n

10. Four hundred years before Seinfeld, there was a show about nothing.<\/p>\n

11. We’re gonna party like it’s 1199.<\/p>\n

12. Cast of Characters: a nobleman in disguise, an adulterer, a tyrant, an outcast, a wimp, a lackey, a fugitive, a bastard, a fool, two wicked sisters, and an elderly king, slowly losing his grasp on his humanity. Yes, we’re all in there somewhere.<\/p>\n

13. And now for something completely different.<\/p>\n

14. Bon Appetit!<\/p>\n

15. Come join our monthly meeting of conspirators as we sink our daggers into Shakespeare’s classic tale of political intrigue and betrayal in Ancient Rome.<\/p>\n

BONUS QUESTION: If readings are typically held on the first Sunday of each month, what play would have been the appropriate choice for January 2008?<\/p>\n

Please post whatever you come up with in the comments section.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Correct plays provided by Asher (10) and Jeremy (6). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks for the good feedback about last week’s invite rhymes for the Best of the Bard and Henry VIII invites. The Shakespeare invites don’t usually involve poetry, but I do like to include a tagline to catch the interest of group members. Since I haven’t actually organized a reading in some time, I could at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,30,62,91,113,12,122,58,52,76,124,125,25,3,126,119,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-as-you-like-it","category-conundrum","category-cymbeline","category-hamlet","category-histories","category-humor","category-julius-caesar","category-king-lear","category-macbeth","category-measure-for-measure","category-much-ado","category-othello","category-reading-group","category-shakespeare","category-tempest","category-plantagenets","category-twelfth-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6396,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}