wiki-illiam #108: q3

[dubdobdee]

3. In what work:

1: does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2: is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3: does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?
4: does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?
5: does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?
6: does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
7: does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
8: is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?
9: is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?
10: does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

OK on the the initial (possibly deliberately misled towards) assumption this might be SHAKESPEARE-related:

ii: is possibly Falstaff in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
iii: yikes, are there any Peruvians in Shakespeare, possibly not
iv: CORIOLANUS has conflict between patricians and plebeians
vi: sounds like LEAR, so I'm going to say CYMBELINE (who is definitely a heathen king with a daughter)
vii: how can this not be OTHELLO?
viii: ditto ditto MACBETH (Duncan assassinated following witch's prediction)
x: I vaguely feel that she is rudely referred to somewhere as a courtesan so ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

I strongly intuit this is a deliberate bum steer, so yay me for getting it all out of the way, no?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Matt McG on twitter has a smart suggestion: vii is not Shakespeare's Othello but Verdi's OTELLO and ix is Verdi's ERMANI (an opera based, google tells me, on a novel by Victor Hugo).

So possibly they are all OPERAS, in which case viii may be LADY MACBETH OF MTENSK by Shostakovich

Or else they are all VERDI-RELATED, in which case ii is FALSTAFF

(Vaguely recall Verdi did a fvckton of Shakespeare -- also, via google, 2013 is of course the bicentennial of his birth, which is KW-katnip)