q9

[dubdobdee]

q9:
i: 1 Who knew how to locate rubiginosa and moschata?
ii: Which monarch witnessed the statue of his late consort coming to life?
iii: Who regretted the trip to North Africa, believing his son to have perished?
iv: Who resolved with fellow-scholars to diet and remain celibate for a triennium?
v: Whose murder was signalled by the screaming of an owl and the crying of crickets?
vi: Whose ambassador urged the King of England to stand down in favour of his nephew?
vii: Who received conflicting pleas from Edward’s representative and from Margaret?
viii: Which vanquished monarch agreed to present his daughter to the victor?
ix: Which monarch accidentally poisoned his wife instead of his nephew?
x: Who devised a riddle regarding his own incestuous relationship?

COMPLETED:
i: ok it’s OBERON not TITANIA (she sleeps at the bank), rubiginosa = eglantine, moschata = musk-rose, it’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (dubdobdee confirmed his guess)
ii: LEONTES in A WINTER’S TALE (semi-guessed dubdobdee, confirmed marnameow)
iii: is ALONSO (Ferdinand's dad) in THE TEMPEST (semi-guessed dubdobdee, known by [Bad username or site: kerry polka @ livejournal.com])
iv: the KING OF NAVARRE in LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (googled by dubdobdee, attempting to confirm belecrivain's guess)
v: DUNCAN in MACBETH (dubdobdee confirmed his guess)
vi: at the start of the eponymous KING JOHN, the KING OF FRANCE urges John to stand down in favour of ARTHUR (known by jeff and [Bad username or site: kerry polka @ livejournal.com])
vii: LOUIS XI of France in HENRY VI part 3 (semi-guessed dubdobdee, known by [Bad username or site: kerry polka @ livejournal.com])
viii: the KING OF FRANCE agrees after Agincourt to let his daughter CATHERINE OF VALOIS marry HENRY V in the eponymous play (tentatively known by alextiefling) (to be fair henry and catherine rather woo one another, w/o really knowning one another’s languages)
ix: CLAUDIUS poisons a cup meant for the eponymous HAMLET (dubdobdee confirmed his guess)
x: ANTIOCHUS in PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE (known by [Bad username or site: kerry polka @ livejournal.com])

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

p sure this is monarchs in shakespeare -- answers below entirely from tired noodle

i: this might the fairyqueen in midsummer night wotsit, who "knows a bank whereon the wild thymes grows, where nodding violets" etc
ii: is a winter's tale (or possibly cymbeline)
iii: is this the tempest?
v: is duncan in macbeth
vii: edward and margaret are striding around all over whichever of henry vi pt etc is the one this happens in (my guess is part 3)
viii: doesn't lear hand over cordelia to goneril and regan?
in ix: the nephew is hamlet, so the king is i think claudius?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Def. A Winter's Tale, and it would be Leontes.

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

iv - I think Measure for Measure is the one about the four friends who take a vow not to get married? (also I don't think Lear gives up Cordelia since she's married to the King of France when she's defeated. Titus Andronicus for that one?)

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

damn it, mixed up MfM and LLL.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Isn't 8 the King of France in Henry V?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

vi. is also the king of France - and the king of England who received the ambassador is King John, in the lesser known play of same name

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

iii. Alonso (Ferdinand's father in the Tempest, they were sailing to Tunis)
vi. King of France (Charles I think? It's King John anyway)
vii. Louis XI of France, THE SPIDER KING (Henry VI part 3)
x. Antiochus (Pericles)

All of the top of my head, GO ME!

Also I feel iv. could apply to any of the four, but as the category is clearly "monarchs in Shakespeare" then sure let's go with Ferdinand.