Nothing serious, don’t worry – just a wee quiz that I stumbled across earlier today in some random quarter of the blogosphere – how well can you discriminate Shakespeare’s plays from quotations from the Bible?
ninetysix and ten
mostly traditional scottish presbyterianism
ninetysix and ten 
Hello Catherine,
That was a fun quiz–I got 9 out of 10 right and missed number six because it was phrased like Scripture though I didn’t recognize it.
Hope you’re doing well!
Renee
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Hi Renee!
Good to hear from you!
That sounds like the one i got confused with too :)
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Renee and I think alike! I got 9 out of 10 – and #6 is the one I missed!
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9/10; feeling smug; I don’t even read the AV :-)
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The only one I actually knew was the bit from Portia’s speech but random selection gave me 6/10. I really should read more historical fiction :-P
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Mm, fiction…
;)
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9 out of 10…yep I got confused with number 6…I should have known.
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I dare to confess that I wasn’t doing better than chance on this one: 5/10 :-( (Doubly embarrassing for someone in full-time ministry and Bible translation …)
My only consolation is that, coming from a German background, I’m neither familiar with the AV nor do I know Shakespeare from Adam. So I can still delude myself into believing that I would have done a lot better if it had been the Bible according to Luther’s German translation versus Goethe …
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I am a huge fan of historical fiction, the problem with Shakespeare is that I don’t know how bothered he was about accuracy. Something like my beloved Kristin or the recently-published A Cairn of Small Stones is researched in its details and sticks to the story as far as Big Names go. But all I know about Macbeth is what Shakespeare and Scotland’s Story tell me!
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… and I don’t have any idea of what more sober historians say (Kristin and the Cairn being written by sober historians).
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Wow…! So I’m the first to record a 10/10 :-) Or is it cheating to acknowledge that the ones I recognised were from the Bible and the ones I didn’t were Shakespeare :-$
:-) Rach
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That’s exactly what I did too, Rach (with the same result).
I wasn’t taught any Shakespeare, and having attempted to dip into it more than once, never liked it. Seemed pretty ungodly, and not remotely interesting, and there was a whole lot of vocabulary that I’d never come across in the Bible (Tyndale, Geneva, KJV) and some Puritan etc writings.
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