Can you pick the line that continues the given dialogue from one of Shakespeare's plays? by Puzzgal

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Follow That Line: Shakespeare Quiz

by Puzzgal

Created Feb 16, 2013 in Literature
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	medievalista:	Feb 16th, 2013 at 13:44 GMT		5 points
	Thanks Puzzgal, I enjoyed that.

	pixiepop:	Feb 16th, 2013 at 19:09 GMT		2 points
	Excellent quiz! The only suggestion I would make is that you give less time.

	druhutch:	Feb 17th, 2013 at 05:44 GMT		1 point
	^Agree with that. Sixteen minutes is a lot. You could play the quiz and then go bake a cake in that amount of time. But like usual it's a terrific quiz and another really nice idea. Can't wait for more of these.

	Triffid:	Feb 19th, 2013 at 21:19 GMT		8 points
	There's nothing wrong with giving people plenty of thinking time. Those who are familiar with Shakespeare can finish this quickly. However even if one is unfamiliar with the plays, a lot of the answers can be worked out with some thought.

	druhutch:	Feb 20th, 2013 at 04:56 GMT		1 point
	@Triffid: I completely understand why the quiz creator made the quiz that long: people who are unfamiliar with the quotes should be allowed all the time they need to enjoy piecing together and reveling in these incredible phrases. But I still maintain that 16 minutes is too long for a quiz with only 24 answers, and I honestly could care less if every comment I make on the subject is downvoted into oblivion. You need to Shakespeare a little faster.

	crow_t_robot:	Feb 20th, 2013 at 20:27 GMT		5 points
	@druhutch: I think maybe Triffid just wants some of the cake you made. I know I do. Is it chocolate cake?

	druhutch:	Feb 21st, 2013 at 15:09 GMT		4 points
	@crow_t_robot: Yes and you can't have any.

	prouvaire:	Feb 23rd, 2013 at 17:30 GMT		6 points
	Dost thou think because thou art not yet done with the quiz, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

	shakescene:	Feb 23rd, 2013 at 21:45 GMT		2 points
	Someone who knows only a couple of Shakespeare plays might be stumped by the lines he or she has never seen, so better to give more time and reduce frustration among the generality of Sporclers.

	top_jtk:	Feb 24th, 2013 at 03:18 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, but I'm pretty sure that Juliet's quote is "there rest" and not " there rust". (Though rust does give a very striking and morbid visual image).

	prouvaire:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 18:43 GMT		2 points
	It may be a Quarto/Folio difference, but the First Folio definitely says "rust".

	Sopz:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 20:16 GMT		2 points
	Lovely quiz

	top_jtk:	Feb 28th, 2013 at 20:16 GMT		2 points
	@prouvaire: I think you're right. I'm seeing both versions all over the place. Amazing how one letter difference so changes the tone of the line.

	shakescene:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 09:20 GMT		3 points
	I just happen to have an old Arden Shakespeare of Romeo and Juliet (edited by Brian Gibbons, 1980) handy, and this is what it says about "sword rust" in Act V, scene iii. It's "rest" in the First Quarto, but "rust" the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quartos, as well as the First Folio (1623). Gibbons' note says "Dover Wilson thinks rust "hideously unpoetical; but I find it vivid, fierce, bearing traces of Juliet's earlier attentiveness to the factual details of physical decay in death: it also completes the motif of Death as rival to Romeo; Death lies with Juliet, as her passionate This is thy sheath acknowledges. The Q1 [First Quarto] has of course inferior authority." [From a hasty reading-over of the Introduction, I gather that Gibbons believes with many others that the First Quarto was a "Bad" Quarto, reconstructed from participants' or listeners' memories of the spoken play, while the Second was printed from copying a written text, such as the playwright's "foul papers" or the prompt-book.]