Brush up your Shakespeare

Warrigal

Warrigal

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It's 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare and I just found this 10 question quiz designed to see if you can tell the difference between lines from Shakespeare and ones composed by modern day rappers.

I haven't a clue about rappers but I did study a lot of Shakespeare in high school. My score 9/10 but I did have to scratch my head quite a lot.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-22/shakespeare-or-rapper-quiz/7345586
 

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Had to teach Shakespeare here in Australia!
You can imagine my "Angst", as I only had a fleeting acquaintance with the great man in English 101 where the prof. ran through the material very quickly.
Now had it been Goethe or Schiller, still very difficult and better read in German, I would have been prepared.
So out came every outline, summary, lit. aide,
you can imagine.
But then I had the bright idea as presenting some of the interesting lines as a fascinating puzzle, and it worked.
 
I graduated with Honors in English. If not for Kevin Branagh and Denzil in "As You Like It" I would have failed.
 

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