As You Like It Richard III by Kevin Dayhoff in The Tentacle

This Friday, August 26, “The Shakespeare Factory Players” will be performing As You Like It, in historic downtown Mount Airy at Watkins' Park ... For more information contact info@theshakespearefactory.com or 410-218-1479...  

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August 24, 2011

As You Like It Richard III

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Kevin E. Dayhoff  

Now is the winter of our discontent… On the morning of August 22, in 1485, a defining moment in English history took place with the death of King Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Of course, this has little to do with central-Maryland or local, state or national politics – or does it? The crushing tedium of the current state of affairs of our nation’s political discourse, the seemingly endless foreign wars and the intractable national and global economic malaise is enough to cause my bud of calm to blossom into hysteria. I almost wrote a column on the history of nylons.

As our nation currently attempts to extricate itself from an economic, social and political tar pit and wallows around like a bellowing mastodon, the Shakespearian melodrama and theatricality of Obama I is reminiscent of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.

Or The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, by William Shakespeare.

The death of Richard III – “the last English king to die at the head of an army… established the Tudor dynasty and the modern state,” according to anarticle in the Guardian by Martin Wainwright.

The skirmishes over the historic significance of the battle in Leicestershire County, in the center of England, which effectively ended the 30-year, English civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster, the Wars of the Roses, and the end of the Middle Ages, has raged ever since.

However, not in doubt is the fact that the battle ended the House of Plantagenet line of 15 kings that ruled England from 1154, when it took over from the House of Normandy, until 1485.

After the death of Richard III, King Henry VII seized the throne and became the first English monarch of the House of Tudor, which lasted until 1603....

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20080121 That is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book by Tom Delise

That is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book (Paperback)

by Thomas Delise

Publisher: Career Press, Incorporated

Pub. Date: April 2004

ISBN-13: 9781564147349

283pp

Table of Contents

Introduction 13

Section I Quoting Shakespeare 17

Quiz 1 This Is the True Beginning: Identify the Play by the Opening Lines 19

Quiz 2 What Do You Call the Play?: Identify the Play by a Quote 21

Quiz 3 I Would My Horse Had the Speed of Your Tongue: Identify the Play by an Insult Used 23

Quiz 4 Thus Men May Grow Wiser Every Day: Identify the Play by a Wise Quote 25

Quiz 5 This Bud of Love: Identify the Play by a Love Quote 26

Quiz 6 Will You Rhyme Upon't?: Complete the Play's Rhyming Couplet 28

Quiz 7 Say But the Word: Complete the Play's Quote 31

Quiz 8 Why, How Now, Hamlet!: Complete the Hamlet Quote 33

Quiz 9 To Be, or Not To Be: Complete the Hamlet Soliloquy 34

Quiz 10 All the World's a Stage: Complete the As You Like It Soliloquy 36

Quiz 11 Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent: Complete the Richard III Soliloquy 37

Quiz 12 Here Is Part of My Rhyme: Complete the Sonnet Rhyme 38

Quiz 13 'Tis Well Said Again: Identify the Play Where a Famous Phrase May Be Found 40

Quiz 14 Our Revels Now Are Ended: Identify the Play by the Ending Lines 42

Section II Shakespeare's Characters 45

Quiz 15 Have We Not Affections?: Identify the Significant Others 47

Quiz 16 Lord, What Fools: Identify the Fool 48

Quiz 17 Where Are My Children?: Identify the Parent and Child 49

Quiz 18 O, Odious Is the Name: Identify the Character With the Unusual Name 50

Quiz 19 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Multiple Use of Character Names 51

Quiz 20 This Title Honors Me and Mine: Identify Characters by Their Title 52

Quiz 21 Our Parts So Poor: Identify the Play in Which a Minor Character Appears 53

Quiz 22 We Were the First, Part I: Identify the Female Character by Her First Words 54

Quiz 23 We Were the First, Part II: Identify the Male Character by His First Words 56

Quiz 24 A Woman Is a Dish for the Gods: Identify the Female Character From a Quote 58

Quiz 25 What a Piece of Work Is a Man!: Identify the Male Character From a Quote 60

Quiz 26 A Long Farewell to All My Greatness: Identify the Characters by Their Dying Words 63

Quiz 27 Which Is the Villain?: Identify the Villain by the Quote 65

Quiz 28 What Art Thou That Talk'st of Kings and Queens?: Identify the Kings and Queens in the Plays 68

Quiz 29 We Shall Speak of You: Identify the Character Mentioned or Addressed 70

Section III Shakespeare's Infinite Variety 73

Quiz 30 To Peruse Him by Items: Identify the Play by the Item in It 75

Quiz 31 Particular Additions: Identify the Play by a Description 76

Quiz 32 The Game's Afoot: Identify the Play by the Opening Situation 78

Quiz 33 A Pretty Plot, Well Chosen To Build Upon: Identify the Play by Plot Development 80

Quiz 34 It Is a Sweet Comedy: Questions on the Comedies 81

Quiz 35 The Complot of This Timeless Tragedy: Questions on the Tragedies 84

Quiz 36 Is Not This Something More Than Fantasy?: Questions on the Romances 87

Quiz 37 It Is a Kind of History: Questions on the Histories 89

Quiz 38 At First and Last the Hearty Welcome: Firsts and Lasts Associated With Shakespeare 92

Quiz 39 O, Horrible, O, Horrible, Most Horrible!: Identify the Play Where the Horrible Event Can Be Found 95

Quiz 40 This Supernatural Soliciting: Identify the Play Where the Supernatural Occurs 96

Quiz 41 All the Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits: Identify the Play by the Setting 98

Quiz 42 Away, the Gentles Are at Their Game: Games and Sports in the Plays 99

Quiz 43 How Many Goodly Creatures Are There Here!: Creatures in the Plays 101

Quiz 44 Sir, 'Tis My Occupation: The World of Work in Shakespeare 103

Quiz 45 Tales of Woeful Ages Long Ago: Mythological References in the Plays 104

Quiz 46 I'll Tell You My Dream: Dream References in Shakespeare 106

Quiz 47 He Hath Songs for Man or Woman: Songs in Shakespeare 108

Quiz 48 Doctor, Cast the Water of My Land, Find Her Disease: Shakespeare and the World of Medicine 109

Section IV Film, Stage, and Literature 113

Quiz 49 This Wide and Universal Theatre: Shakespeare in Film 115

Quiz 50 You Precious Winners All: Academy Awards for Shakespeare 118

Quiz 51 The Best Actors in the World, Part I: Actors in Shakespearean Film 121

Quiz 52 The Best Actors in the World, Part II: Actors in Shakespearean Film 124

Quiz 53 Let Her Shine as Gloriously, Part I: Actresses in Shakespearean Film 126

Quiz 54 Let Her Shine as Gloriously, Part II: Actresses in Shakespearean Film 129

Quiz 55 Derived From Honorable Loins: Shakespearean Film Offshoots 132

Quiz 56 The Two Hours' Traffic of Our Stage: Shakespeare on the Stage 134

Quiz 57 Stars Give Light to Thy Fair Way!: Shakespeare and Star Trek 137

Quiz 58 O, for a Muse of Fire: Titles of Other Works Derived From Shakespeare 140

Quiz 59 An Advocate for an Imposter!: Is the Quote Shakespeare or Someone Else? 142

Quiz 60 It May Be You Have Mistaken Him: Is It Shakespeare or the Bible? 144

Quiz 61 Forgive the Comment That My Passion Made: Other Writers' Comments About Shakespeare 145

Quiz 62 All the Peers Are Here at Hand: Theatrical and Literary Contemporaries of Shakespeare 147

Quiz 63 Art Thou Base, Common and Popular?: Shakespeare in Pop Culture 149

Section V Individual Plays 153

Quiz 64 We Have Kiss'd Away Kingdoms and Provinces: The Play Antony and Cleopatra 155

Quiz 65 O Wonderful, Wonderful, Most Wonderful: The Play As You Like It 157

Quiz 66 Pardon's the Word to All: The Play Cymbeline 159

Quiz 67 Now Cracks a Noble Heart: The Play Hamlet 161

Quiz 68 Company, Villainous Company: The Play Henry IV, Part One 163

Quiz 69 A Little Touch of Harry in the Night: The Play Henry V 165

Quiz 70 This Was the Most Unkindest Cut of All: The Play Julius Caesar 168

Quiz 71 Nothing Will Come of Nothing: The Play King Lear 170

Quiz 72 This Dead Butcher and His Fiend-like Queen: The Play Macbeth 172

Quiz 73 I Like Not Fair Terms and Villain's Mind: The Play The Merchant of Venice 176

Quiz 74 If We Shadows Have Offended: The Play A Midsummer Night's Dream 177

Quiz 75 A Kind of Merry War: The Play Much Ado About Nothing 179

Quiz 76 O! Beware My Lord of Jealousy: The Play Othello 181

Quiz 77 Cheated of Feature by Dissembling Nature: The Play Richard III 183

Quiz 78 For Never Was a Story of More Woe: The Play Romeo and Juliet 185

Quiz 79 Pluck My Magic Garment From Me: The Play The Tempest 187

Quiz 80 Laugh Yourself Into Stitches: The Play Twelfth Night 189

Quiz 81 A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: The Play The Winter's Tale 191

Section VI Just for Fun 195

Quiz 82 Wild and Whirling Words: Shakespearean Vocabulary 197

Quiz 83 I Smell a Device: Literary Features and Terms Used by Shakespeare 199

Quiz 84 The Articles Collected From His Life: Biography of William Shakespeare 201

Quiz 85 I Have a Sonnet Will Serve the Turn: Sonnets and Other Poetry 203

Quiz 86 The Numbers True: Statistical Shakespeare 206

Quiz 87 This Wooden O: The Theater of Shakespeare 208

Quiz 88 Behold the Poor Remains, Part I: Shakespearean Odds and Ends 210

Quiz 89 Behold the Poor Remains, Part II: Shakespearean Odds and Ends 213

Quiz 90 Let's Set Our Men in Order: Put Kings in Chronological Order 216

Quiz 91 Mince Not the General Tongue: Unscramble the Play Titles 216

Quiz 92 What's in a Name?, Part I: Unscramble Female Character Names 217

Quiz 93 What's in a Name?, Part II: Unscramble Male Character Names 218

Quiz 94 My Nearest Dearest Enemy: Find the Rivals Word Search 219

Quiz 95 I of These Will Wrest an Alphabet: Shakespeare A-Z Crossword Puzzle 220

Answer Key 223

Grading Scales 225

Bibliography 281

About the Author 283

20080125 The Shakespeare Factory's Distracted Globe Players in partnership with Carroll Community College presents Romeo and Juliet

The Shakespeare Factory's Distracted Globe Players in partnership with Carroll Community College presents:

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers at the

Scott Center for the Performing Arts,

Carroll Community College,

1601 Washington Rd, Westminster.

Friday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 26 at

3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, January 26 at 3 p.m.

Tickets are available at the door at $12 for adults or $8 for students and seniors.

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20080108 Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown

Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 – October 6, 1893)

Earlier this Tuesday evening, I was helping a colleague develop some ad copy for an upcoming production of “Romeo and Juliet” by The Shakespeare Factory’s Distracted Globe Players later this month at Carroll Community College. I ran across this painting and liked it…

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The Shakespeare Factory

P.O. Box 484

Sykesville, Maryland 21784

Phone: 410-218-1479

e-mail: info AT theshakespearefactory.com

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20071206 Rude Mechanicals stage the bard’s comedy with a contemporary twist By Charles Schelle

Sweet ‘Midsummer Night’s’ dreams are made of this

Rude Mechanicals stage the bard’s comedy with a contemporary twist

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 By Charles Schelle | Gazette Staff Writer

If Shakespeare could make a mix tape, it might have included Eurythmics’ ”Sweet Dreams” and Michael Jackson’s ‘‘Thriller.”

The Rude Mechanicals’ staging of the bard’s ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream” features songs from those musicians and even a dance-off, but the story remains the same, said Tom Delise, Shakespeare Factory’s executive director.

The play opens tonight at 7 p.m. and runs through Saturday at Century High School, 355 Ronsdale Road, Eldersburg. Tickets are $6 and are available at the door.

The Rude Mechanicals (named after a troupe in ‘‘Midsummer Night’s Dream”) is composed of Century High School students.

Read the rest of the article here: Sweet ‘Midsummer Night’s’ dreams are made of this

If you go

‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday

Century High School auditorium,

355 Ronsdale Road, Eldersburg

Cost: $6 at the door

For more information, call 410-386-4400.