my typing is so slow, so I type it over and over until it's fast enough--and I forget one or 2 or even 3 every time. Not the same ones either. Something about the human brain...it does not want to make quite this much room in our immediate memory. Leaves them in deeper long term memory until forced forward.
Well, first we'd have to be sure that Love's Labour Won is indeed another play, and not an alternate name to one of the plays already listed. I think the prevailing theory right now is that it could be Much Ado about Nothing.
It started with 2 Henry 2 IV (Henry IV 2: Electric Boogaloo?) and Henry IV 3: Tokyo Drift, but Shakespeare knew when he was onto a winner and only a few years later we had Henry IV 23: Trouble at the Bus Stop
Really, Two Noble Kinsman should be on this list. It is now an accepted part of the Shakespeare canon. A collaboration with Fletcher. As was Henry VIII
Considering I took three years of this stuff I missed quite a few. Also could have sworn I typed in some that didn't come up but then they showed up as wrong answers... must have made a typo.
I love this but I could never type this fast. It's a shame that several quizzes here end way before we can get all our knowledge out because we are poor typists--they become essentially a secretarial quiz instead of a knowledge one. If these quizzes were timed but we clicked when done, it would be a race, but not one that ends before we all are done. The braggarts could brag, and the rest would not have to opt out to "untimed" each time we have 30% to go and 12 seconds!
I wasted time on the Richards and the Henrys, I forgot they didn't have 'King' in the titles. I took me a minute to get that straightened out in my head :P
Yes, and it's The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; The Tragedy of Othello: the Moor of Venice; The Life and Death of King John; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; Cymbeline, King of Britain; The Most Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; etc., and there's absolutely no need to type all that out when everyone knows perfectly well what Hamlet means.
If you had asked me the 'Shakespeare Plays' at home, sat in my armchair, I could have given you most of them, but start the timer and all of a sudden my brain empties and after 14 of 34 I'm staring at the clock watching it unwind...... dear me.
so you arent at home?? and does an armchair or seat or sofa or chair or couch matter?
i know the things a timer can do to you, especially when it is down to the last minute. I dotn have the issue as much with subjects like these. but with elements for instance or, countries with(out) a certain letter in them.
I think it was on a quiz with countries and capitals with an n (makes sense, but it think since then it allways pops in my mind even with unrelated subjects like animals or whatever) and narnia kept coming to mind,,,
Agree. This and the Greek alphabet (where you need to know every letter) feels kind of misplaced. I understand that a lot of people see them as relevant to history, but they are kind of extreme in that regard if you ask me.
How is this not history? Shakespeare is often seen as the embodiment of not just Elizabethan England but all of Europe in the late 1500s and early 1600s. His writings tell us a lot about European society at the time, when it still wasn't the norm for commoners to be literate and write books. Beyond that, he wrote plenty of plays about Greco-Roman civilization and medieval Europe, as can be clearly seen.
I agree the Greek alphabet one is kinda out of place, but I think this quiz is totally warranted for a history badge.
It's amazing how many wonderful plays one man wrote.
I've seen many of these plays, perhaps the majority, at some point in my life, and the quality of the language and the wit is astounding. Even in the more dreary of the histories, the language is still so sharp and well-chosen.
I really do kind of wish life was lived in iambic pentameter, we'd all sound so portentous all the time. :-)
Please consider updating the sorting to ignore the articles "A" and "The" (e.g. A Midsummer Night's Dream belongs with the M's). This is how all libraries sort Shakespeare's titles in their catalogs.
The quiz used to be sorted that way (note my comment above about changing the order) - but one day, inexplicably, it was changed to the rather odd way it is now.
I think that that's a comment regarding the history badge which also entails knowing 44/45 of the US presidents, every single English monarch in history, and the names of medieval English professions. They've got a point, and badges aren't available in other languages.
This is a ridiculously short time to type in answers. Especially when the person setting the quiz doesn't realize that Henry IV and Henry VI constitute 5 separate plays altogether. Brush up your Shakespeare, quizmaster
We've been complaining about the lack of time on this quiz for almost eight years. I wonder if there's any logic behind the decision not to increase it.
Is there any chance of revisiting this question? I don't understand the resistance to increasing the time. A recent quiz gives five minutes to name twenty Star Wars characters from their photographs.
This is really hard. It makes you type 'the' or it wont accept the answer and i think you dont get enough time. I knew more than 20 but i ran out of time so i got a lower score than i was supposed to. Please change this. Thank You.
i know the things a timer can do to you, especially when it is down to the last minute. I dotn have the issue as much with subjects like these. but with elements for instance or, countries with(out) a certain letter in them.
I think it was on a quiz with countries and capitals with an n (makes sense, but it think since then it allways pops in my mind even with unrelated subjects like animals or whatever) and narnia kept coming to mind,,,
... or was it not 2-b? I don't remember
Also missed Romeo and Juliet (facepalm)
I come to bury this badge, not to praise it.
I agree the Greek alphabet one is kinda out of place, but I think this quiz is totally warranted for a history badge.
I've seen many of these plays, perhaps the majority, at some point in my life, and the quality of the language and the wit is astounding. Even in the more dreary of the histories, the language is still so sharp and well-chosen.
I really do kind of wish life was lived in iambic pentameter, we'd all sound so portentous all the time. :-)
Quizmaster on this quiz: 4 minutes is plenty for all the works of Shakespeare!
Nice quiz though!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Play
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Play
Romeo and Juliet
Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Taming of the Shrew
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona