wiki-illiam #106: q16

[dubdobdee]

Where:
i: did Robinson settle for the elder sister?
ii: was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?
iii: did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?
iv: did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?
v: did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicidefollowing the Friar's ruse?
vi: did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?
vii: did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?
viii: did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?
ix: did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?
x: did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

These seem a bit more meaty! The last one was quite hard to work up enthusiasm for :(

Is iii somewhere like Verona? ie from title of a play? Everyone in Shakespeare is called Benedick. I propose -- perhaps rashly as don't even have this one! -- these are all from play titles with place names in them...

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

iii seems to be about Much Ado About NOthing, which without looking ISTR is set in PAdua?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

v must be Romeo and Juliet - is this locations of Shakespeares plays?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh maybe! i am embarassingly under-informed on Mr S's "comedy" stylings i ph34r

also: is there really someone called "robinson" in one of his plays?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Hah I don't know of a Robinson, offhand - I would say that q1 is The Taming Of The Shrew, as there is an "unattractive" older sister in that, but not sure how to relate the question!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Went off on a weird tangent convinced that the only way a character in WS could be called "Robinson" was if his dad was called Robin. Then tried to remember father-son characters, and vaguely recalled a character called "Old Potto" or similar. Hunted for same: I was recalling Old Gobbo and his son Laurence, in Merchant of V.

Is Old Gobbo called Robin? It is not clear. OLD GOBBO!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Didn't R&J top themselves in Padua?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

It's Been A Long Time since I properly read any Shakey :( will dig out the old Riverside SHakespeare later on!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The last one was quite hard to work up enthusiasm for :(
You don't like the Sport Of Kings?

(OK, nor do I)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vii) Richard III as hunchback? Is he rejected in the play?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Don't think it's Crookback Dick: his first move is successful woo, iirc, and I don't believe there's a "troupe" of any kind in the play

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

x) is The Rape of Lucretia (ughhh I don't know for sure where it was set but I guess it was Rome) - might the theme be operas? Which would cover R&J too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

These all seem to be on the tip of my tongue actually. I used to read this book of opera plots when I was, like, 10... ix) the accursed jester is Rigoletto but I have NO IDEA where that opera was set :(

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

An Italian connection seems to be emerging though, for the settings of all of these.

vii.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I've found the rejected hunchback now using Lex's idea as google fodder. The setting is Italy, again. But they could also all be operas.

i.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

...and found 'Robinson' now as well.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember getting 'tales from the opera' book from the library when I was tiny. They were ACE - all blood and shaggings and HIGH DRAMA. I was very disappointed when I heard the actual singing.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And they were all so RIDICULOUS too - half the plot summaries in this partic book just involved the author going "and THIS BIT makes NO SENSE but WHATEVZ"!

I like the actual opera too but it's a very different kind of liking.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Kobbé?