20080121 Clinton Obama Edwards slug it out in South Carolina

Debate: In-SC-(D)-Clinton-Obama-Edwards-(3/3)-Jan. 21, 2008

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Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton spar over Reagan at the South Carolina debate.

2)Viewers react to health care debate 1:37
Watch debate viewer reaction to John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama as they discuss health care.

3) Voting record up for debate 1:52
Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards get into a heated exchange about their past U.S. senate votes.

4) Clinton discusses Iraq policy 1:20
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton says she would have U.S. troops out of Iraq in a year.

5) Edwards, Obama debate Iraq 2:47
Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards discuss their policies on the Iraq war.

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Watch debate viewers react to John Edwards talking about fellow presidential candidates squabble on stage.

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?”

Eldersburg and Westminster Eagle Wednesday column

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?”

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 column for the Eldersburg and Westminster Eagle By Kevin Dayhoff

“O comfortable friar!  Where is my lord?  I do remember well where I should be, and there I am.  Where is my Romeo?”

Well Romeo, my dear reader, will cometh to a theater near you this weekend, in person at the Theater in the Scott Center at Carroll Community College, courtesy of “The Shakespeare Factory's Distracted Globe Players.”

William Shakespeare’s time-honored play “Romeo and Juliet” is one of his more famous works and it has a little something for everyone.

To refresh your memory, the play features saga of the “star-crossed” love of two teenagers who come from rival families, the Capulets and Montagues.  Romeo Montocchio and Juliet Capelletto, the real couple upon which Shakespeare based his play, 'Romeo and Juliet', were married at Citadella, Italy March 11, 1302.

In a theme that is just as tragic (and relevant) today as it was 400 years ago, the blood-conflict between the two families began many years ago with really little things which got blown out of proportion into a huge dispute - but neither family could recall how it began.

The play also delves into the intergenerational conflict between older folks and two members of the youngest generation who fall in love and simply do not care about the ill feelings in the older generation. 

To Romeo and Juliet, the feud makes no sense.  Their elders are fighting just for the sake of fighting.  It is only after tragedy strikes that the two families realize how wrong they had been.

Last Thursday, I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the production and observe as approximately 300 9th grade students from Century High School watched a portion of the play at Carroll Community College as part of a “freshman seminar” workshop.

Unfortunately, the performance was cut short when the students were encouraged to - hasten thyself to yonder bus, the snow cometh.

To observe the students watch the performance, a casual observer could have easily imagined that the 9th graders were watching the classic 1975 cult-audience participation oriented “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” 

To refresh your memory, the musical comedy makes fun of science fiction horror movies.  It starred Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick.  After its initial release the movie became well known for the interaction of audiences singing along and “participating” with the movie precisely, on cue. 

At a time when the contemporary criticism of today’s classroom is that they are “places of crushing boredom,” the students really seemed to enjoy the performance and were quite animated as they carefully followed along with the script.

The production company’s artistic director, Century High School English teacher Tom Delise easily explained the performance’s success: “This ain’t your Daddy’s Shakespeare.” 

(He was also relatively unresponsive when I asked him if the production would include Ozzy Osborne’s “No More Tears.”)

The play is directed by Tom Rinaldi, the son of Audrey Cimino, an accomplished Carroll County actress and singer - and the Carroll Community Foundation executive director. 

This version is true to the fundamentals of the story, but it is certainly not staid, or stodgy.

Parents, at this point, please keep this column away from your children as otherwise they will learn the “secret” that Mr. Delise’s innovative approaches to Shakespeare’s plays are not simply for the students’ entertainment.  Nor is it to teach them iambic pentameter, but rather it is used to aid in teaching 9th graders language, reading, and communication life-skills as they enter the demanding world of high school academics.

If the reaction of the students is any indication, the production is sure to be another hit in a series of well-attended and well-received Shakespeare productions by the “Factory.”

Just last December, The Rude Mechanicals’ staged ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Century High School, which was explained, according to one review, as how Shakespeare would have produced it, if he “could make a mix tape, (that would) might have included Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’”  All reports indicate that it was well-received.

According to the Shakespeare Factory’s founder, Mr. Delise, author of “That Is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book,” and a thirty year veteran of teaching English – he began the high school acting troupe, The Rude Mechanicals at Century High in 2003.

Since then the “Shakespeare Factory” has expanded to include an adult acting troupe, “The Distracted Globe Players;” and “Touchstone's Players,” an elementary school acting troupe.

The Shakespeare Factory’s major objectives are: “To encourage the teaching of Shakespeare using performance techniques; form groups in the schools and in the community to perform Shakespeare; and encourage the idea that Shakespeare can be enjoyed by people of all ages.”

This weekend’s performances of “Romeo and Juliet” are sure to be enjoyed by the most conventional of Shakespeare purists and the aficionado of avant-garde theatre alike as the streets of Verona come alive in Westminster in a manner that is hardly imaginable for most of us.

Showtimes this weekend at Carroll Community College are Friday, at 7:30 pm, Saturday at 3 pm and 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 3 pm. 

Tickets are available at the door at $12 for adults or $8 for students and seniors.  For more information, go to the Shakespeare Factory’s website, www.theshakespearefactory.com.  Come hither to yon theater and see, “for stony limits cannot hold love out.”

Kevin Dayhoff, when not composing iambic pentameter and quoting Shakespeare, writes from Westminster

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20080123 Press Release: Governor O'Malley Delivers 2008 State of the State Address

Press Release - Office of the Governor January 23, 2008

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Governor O'Malley Delivers 2008 State of the State Address

Focuses on Protecting Maryland’s Priorities – Public Safety, Public Education, and Opportunity

ANNAPOLIS, MD (January 23, 2008) – Governor Martin O’Malley today delivered his second annual State of the State Address to the Maryland General Assembly focusing on the need to protect Maryland’s critical priorities – to strengthen and protect our middle class, to protect our commitment to improve public safety and public education in every region of our State, and to protect opportunity for the hard-working families of our State.

“The most important days in life are not always the easy days,” said Governor O’Malley in his address. “Time and again we have overcome challenges because of our respect for the dignity of every individual; because of our commitment to the common good; and because we have had the courage to protect our priorities especially when faced with great adversity.”

“For these reasons, Maryland has been a strong state,” he added. “But the future of our State is very much determined by the strength and the security of the families of Maryland – the hard-working and loving families that we have the honor and responsibility to represent. And today, the vast majority of Maryland’s families, like families throughout our country, are finding it harder and harder just to pay their bills and maintain the quality of life that they have worked so hard to achieve.”

During his speech, Governor O’Malley focused on public safety outlining a new proposal to expand DNA fingerprinting for violent offenders and reform the Department of Juvenile Services. In his first year in office, Governor O’Malley closed Maryland’s most troubled and violent prison – the Maryland House of Correction. The Governor’s proposed budget for FY 2009 includes funding to increase community supervision and surveillance of high risk juvenile offenders through the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, and provides historic funding levels to begin the overhaul of detention and treatment facilities for the State’s juvenile services. Governor O’Malley is also introducing legislation to require the collection of a DNA fingerprinting from offenders charged with a crime of violence or burglary at the time of their arrest. This evolution in Maryland’s DNA law is necessary to significantly decrease violent crime in our neighborhoods.

“One of our highest priorities this year will be to fight back against violent crime – wherever it occurs in Maryland,” said Governor O’Malley. “One year ago, I shared with you how deeply troubled our State public safety departments were. Over the course of this year, we have begun to make progress in turning this situation around so that our State gets back into the business of supporting local police departments and communities in the fight against violent crime.”

Governor O’Malley talked about the need to keep college tuition affordable for Maryland’s families. The Governor has proposed a tuition freeze at Maryland’s public colleges for the third year in a row to keep college tuition affordable for Maryland families. As a result, people like United States Marine Lance Corporal Will Amos, who has just returned from three tours of duty in Iraq, and who was in attendance for today’s address, will attend the University of Maryland, College Park using the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship Program.

“We can once again hold the line against the rising cost of college tuition,” Governor O’Malley said. “Hard-working families in Maryland should be able to afford to send their children to Maryland colleges.”

Governor O’Malley also outlined his FY 2009 budget priorities and this year’s legislative agenda. Earlier this month, Governor O’Malley unveiled the FY 2009 budget, which grows less than the Spending Affordability Limit set by the General Assembly, while also saving $739 million in the Rainy Day Fund balance by the close of FY 2009. Governor O’Malley also cut spending by $550 million – on top of the $280 million in reductions achieved last July.

The Governor spoke about the need to protect homeownership in Maryland, including his comprehensive proposal to address the mortgage foreclosure crisis confronting families across Maryland. He discussed plans for a sustainable long-term environmental and energy policy for our State. In addition, Governor O’Malley is proposing measures to improve life-long learning opportunities for Maryland’s workforce, and provide local jurisdictions more flexibility to plan for economic development projects. Governor O’Malley is also sponsoring legislation to improve State services for our veterans who have courageously served our nation abroad.

Governor O’Malley used the address to discuss accomplishments during his first year in office to make government work again. In his first year in office, Governor O’Malley implemented StateStat, a performance measurement system that makes government more efficient and accountable. Today, 13 different departments participate in performance measured government to improve efficiency and service delivery.

Governor O’Malley stressed the importance of protecting Maryland’s most valued treasure – the Chesapeake Bay – and Maryland’s environment. In his first year in office, Governor O’Malley implemented several measures to improve the health of the Bay, and to protect the health of Maryland’s environment for Maryland’s children, including passing the Clean Cars Act, the Stormwater Management Act and creating the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund. In his address, Governor O’Malley asked for support in updating the Critical Areas Law, and support to do more for the health of the Bay with the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund.

“We need to update our Critical Areas Law so massive developments like the Four Seasons project on Kent Island should be prohibited at the first step in the process, not the last,” he said. “Last year, we vowed to use open space dollars for the purchase of open space. We started to apply performance measured management to the huge challenge of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay with Baystat. We expanded cover crops to more acreage than ever before while continuing Oyster restoration efforts to help the Bay and watermen. With the creation of the Chesapeake Bay Trust Fund we can do even more this year.”

He also asked for support of new legislation to promote Transit Oriented Development (TOD), a smart growth tool to revitalize communities and curb sprawl. The bill codifies TOD as a statewide transportation purpose and provides the legal framework and authority to advance TOD projects around the State. It will allow the Department of Transportation to designate TOD projects and use its property and resources to support mixed use and pedestrian friendly development around existing and future transit stations. In addition, Governor O’Malley vowed to take a number of efforts to secure fair and reasonable energy rates while also ensuring an adequate supply for our future.

Governor O’Malley vowed the importance of protecting Maryland’s priorities in order to protect Maryland’s future.

“I look forward to working with all of you, including members and leaders of the minority party in this chamber, and in local governments around our state, as we face the challenging times ahead,” he said.

“We know that Maryland is a stronger state than most. We can get through these tough economic times more quickly than other parts of our country; but only if we can continue to come together to protect the priorities that make us strong. We will take it from here, striving to do all that we can – especially in these difficult times – for the hardworking people we have the privilege to serve and the One Maryland we carry in our hearts.”

[ Read the speech - Listen to audio mp3 ]

20080123 This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Iron Chef Maryland

Kevin E. Dayhoff

As members of the Maryland General Assembly prepare a menu of legislative edicts that will save the world from global warming, the weather feels rather chilly for State Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick.

Never fear, Mrs. Grasmick, word in the airways is that Gov. Martin O’Malley is breaking out the large backyard crab pot and the sharp knives – and you, my dear, are to be served for dinner.

Fellow Maryland crab aficionados are aware that crabs are put in water, in a large pot – alive. Heat is slowly applied and before you know it, after a brief kerfuffle, the tasty crustaceans are boiled alive. Of course, at first the crabs just think they have escaped the bushel basket to go for a swim.

In December, the state school board voted to extend Mrs. Grasmick’s contract. Ah, the cruelest hoax of all is the hope for safety. The Democrat leadership of the General Assembly and the governor’s office were less than pleased.

The program in Annapolis is really called “Iron Chef Maryland,” with all appropriate apologies to any reference to the hit “Food Channel” program “Iron Chef America.”

Today, the governor will utter the opening battle cry – and serve his State of the State “appetizer” to the legislature assembled jointly in the kitchen-chamber of the House of Delegates.

Sure to be included in the annual address will be… Read the rest of the column here: Iron Chef Maryland

A Funny Thing Happened on The Way…..

Farrell Keough

A funny thing happened to the Resource Conservation Zoning areas the other day – they got a reprieve from potential damage by the Board of County Commissioners. But, only a reprieve. These zoned areas and the rules surrounding them are still on the altar of political distortion.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

All Over But...

Roy Meachum

Marylanders' primary vote in three weeks could mean bupkus (less than nothing). Nothing will probably matter after a whole passel of states square off the week before, February 5. It looks to me like the traditional Democratic bosses want Bill Clinton's former first lady. After the Iowa surprise, that's what we have seen. They took over in New Hampshire and Nevada.

Teaching is Not Telling

Nick Diaz

“Teaching is not telling.” Wise words spoken many years ago by a well-known Frederick County Public Schools administrator. This man is still working in the trenches, down at the school level, where he continues to make things happen.

The President Visits Frederick – Chapter Two

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

Once the other greeters had arrived, a member of the White House advance team called us together for a briefing. Nothing is left to chance, and every single movement is scripted. You’re told where to stand, how to line up, and where to go once you’re spoken to and shaken hands with the president.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

The President In Frederick, Chapter 1

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

Okay, having the President of the United States in Frederick isn’t really such a big deal. In case you didn’t know, he spends many weekends up at Camp David. In fact, I think at the end of his two terms, he will have spent more time in the Catoctin Mountains than any previous president.

From Walkersville With Bias

Steven R. Berryman

Advice from the publisher of The Tentacle, John W. Ashbury given to me recently correctly told me that “A pancake, however thin, always has 2 sides,” in reminding me to consider the aspects of perspective and fairness in my columns.

Dr. King’s Call

Derek Shackelford

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arguably the greatest orator of the last 50 years in America. Today portions of some of his Speeches will be played to celebrate the federal holiday celebrating his birth.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Governing by Fiat

Roy Meachum

Back on October 26, I offered TheTentacle.com readers this observation: "From here the omens are not good for the governor's session that opens Monday. Martin O'Malley hoped calling the legislature in would lead to answers for Maryland's staggering deficits. I don't think it's going to happen." I was wrong.

My world turned upside down

Edward Lulie III

It is amazing, as many people know, how one day can turn your life upside down with no way possible to upright it.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

How Quickly We Forget

Chris Cavey

What a difference a few years make. It seems like it was just 2004 and The Sun of Baltimore commissioned a poll where, oddly enough, a Republican governor – after his first year in office – scored a rating of 56% popularity from the citizens of Maryland. The press and media were in disbelief.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

“When all else fails, read the Constitution”

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Last Thursday, Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Thomas F. Stansfield delivered a decision in the lawsuit filed by Republicans, which sought to overturn more than $1.3 billion in new taxes passed in the special session of the Maryland General Assembly in November.

Joining The Great Society

Norman M. Covert

Whether one likes it or not, this is the moment when the reality of socialism strikes my generation in the face. We cannot avoid it. All manner of protestations about the rightness of conservative values cannot compete with the reality of Big Government – and truly this is not George Bush’s fault.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Elitist Commissioners

Roy Meachum

John "Lennie" Thompson and the commissioners he continues to dominate see Frederick's development strictly in terms of profit hungry and all-powerful builders.

What’s Behind This Moratorium?

Farrell Keough

To moratorium or not to moratorium; that is not necessarily the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the traffic jams and loss of beautiful landscape, or take action against our development issues and end them…

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Lessons Learned

Steven R. Berryman

I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed the quasi-legal proceedings of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Inc.’s (AMC) hearings to obtain approval of a special exception that would allow them to build a 43,000 square foot convention building in Walkersville.

General Assembly Journal 2008 – Volume 1

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

With the tension of the recently completed special session still hanging thick in the Annapolis air, and the unusual spring-like warmth banishing the normal overcoats and gloves, 188 legislators again descended on the state capitol to begin the 425th session of the Maryland General Assembly.

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January 16, 2008

“When all else fails, read the Constitution”

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Last Thursday, Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Thomas F. Stansfield delivered a decision in the lawsuit filed by Republicans, which sought to overturn more than $1.3 billion in new taxes passed in the special session of the Maryland General Assembly in November.

January 9, 2008

The Special Session Lawsuit

Kevin E. Dayhoff

The 425th session of the Maryland General Assembly begins today. Hopefully, the first order of business for that august body will be to re-visit and fix all the problems created during the special taxing session last November.

January 2, 2008

Spiro Agnew: Patron Saint of Alaska

Kevin E. Dayhoff

I was treated to a white Christmas last week. It snowed everyday the entire week I stayed at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, which is incidentally the same hotel where the patron saint of Alaska, Maryland’s own Spiro Agnew, stayed on an impromptu stopover in 1981.

20080123 This week in The Tentacle

20080120 Westminster cops to add computers to vehicles By Ryan Marshall for the Carroll County Times

Westminster cops to add computers to vehicles by Ryan Marshall for the Carroll County Times

Westminster cops to add computers to vehicles

By Ryan Marshall, Times Staff Writer Sunday, January 20, 2008

Westminster police officers on patrol will soon have faster access to information now that the city police department was awarded a grant to outfit three of its vehicles with portable computers.

The computers were purchased with money from the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention, said Capt. Randy Barnes, a spokesman for the police department. The grant totaled $20,442.

The grant also included money for docking stations, so officers can set up their computers in their cars.

The computers will let police check driver’s licenses and vehicle information and see if suspects have outstanding warrants, Barnes said. Officers will also be able to create reports from their vehicles, allowing them to stay out on patrol longer, he said.

The computers will be connected to a network that will let Westminster officers communicate with police in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., who are logged onto the system at the time, Barnes said.

Read the entire article here: Westminster cops to add computers to vehicles

20080121 The Sunday Carroll Eagle

The Sunday Carroll Eagle

Monday, January 21 We can't understand the kids, but in this case it's a good thing
MOM ON A MISSION

Sometimes my children say things in Spanish. It catches me off guard and (I must admit) I have no idea what they're saying. They were chanting something recently and it occurred to me that they got it from "Dora the Explorer."

This is what I get for letting them watch television...
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Reaching Out
Farm Museum hopes to harvest volunteers

The Carroll County Farm Museum is seeking volunteers as it prepares for its busy season in the spring and summer.

Beginning in April the museum hosts numerous group and school tours and by May the museum is open to the public on weekends, and special event...
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Golden oldies at the golden arches

COMMUNITY SPIRITS

The house is already jumping when Fred Ehrlich starts blasting some New Orleans jazz riffs through his weathered horn.

Singers, one in a tuxedo, another channeling Dean Martin, a third looking like Elvis Presley, start belting out lyrics.

A line of ladies who arrived ...
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Git Along, Little Dogies

It's something akin to a rock concert on Saturday evenings at the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster.

The lights inside the Shipley Arena flash and dim, the loud music echoes over the loudspeakers and boisterous fans, some screaming with excitement, rise from the bleachers.
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January 13, 2008: For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters EAGLE ARCHIVE by Kevin Dayhoff

Just before the holidays, I had the pleasure of attending the Westminster Municipal Band's end-of-year Christmas party and annual meeting.

The roots of the Westminster Municipal Band are found in 1920, but according to director Sandy Miller in a July 2004 interview, "there are reco...
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More Headlines Education Notes
Beasts and Birthdays
Westminster businesses throw the books at Baltimore middle school
Stair steps in to assist Marriage Resource Center
Snowfall carried friendship, not isolation, in rural Carroll

December 23, 2007: Shedding a little light on early Christmas tree decorations EAGLE ARCHIVE by Kevin Dayhoff

Roll out the yule log ... all the way to the yard
News Briefs
Movie Capsules CE
Mama knows best at the newest Belisimo's
In New Windsor, Santa always comes to town
'Claus' for adoption in Mount Airy
After Christmas, resolve to ring in the New Year as a family
Setting some ground rules before it becomes 'game over'
Memories, and hope, are evergreen at Carroll Hospice
Holiday trains pull into Sykesville, Mount Airy and Pleasant Valley
Going, going ... but not GONE
Garden grows with a spirit of Christmas

December 16, 2007: Christmas reminds us of worry, and glory, of downtown business EAGLE ARCHIVE by Kevin Dayhoff

Bundle up and keep worm for the holidays

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The Sunday Carroll Eagle: October 28, 2007 - On October 28^th, 2007 the publication for which I write, The Westminster Eagle and The Eldersburg Eagle, (which is published by Patuxent Newspapers and owned by Baltimore Sun); took over the Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun.

“The Sunday Carroll Eagle ” is inserted into the newspaper for distribution in Carroll County. For more information, please contact:

Mr. Jim Joyner, Editor, The Westminster Eagle

121 East Main Street

Westminster, MD 21157

(410) 386-0334 ext. 5004

Jjoyner AT Patuxent DOT com

For more posts on “Soundtrack” click on: Sunday Carroll Eagle

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20071028 The Sunday Carroll Eagle introduction

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2007/10/20071028-sunday-carroll-eagle.html

Also see: Monday, October 22, 2007: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers”

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2007/10/20071021-baltimore-sun-to-our-readers.html

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