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as we search engine optimised the posts i realised we have 2 quizzes and quite a few lists to enlighten our readers. And seeing as new people may be attracted to the site, we thought, let’s organise them in one post, like a UN fact-finding mission.

1. Test your knowledge of the Opening Lines of the Plays!

2. Quiz on the Sonnets

3. The population of England by classes

4. The locations of all existing copies of the Sonnets.

5. Lists the letters and their frequencies that start the Sonnets.

6. Lists the themes common to Petrarch the father of the Early Modern Sonnet.

7. List of Sonnets you should read if you attend Ivy league school Dartmouth.

8. Lists the use of the word ‘argument’ in the Sonnets.

9. A list of the compositional strategies Sh used in the sonnets according to Helen Vendler.

10. A list of things to remember when reciting your sonnet.

11. A list of what was being translated in the Early Modern period.

12. A list of the titles and forms of adress in Sh’s time.

13. A list of the punctuation Sh used and its history.

14. A list of stock characters.

15. A list of church institutions and ranking of its officers.

16. A list of Roget’s thesaurus classifications.

17. A list of levels of drunkenness by Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Sh.

18. A list of irreverent conlusions about Shakespeare.

19. A list of 23 topics with quotes from Sh’s works.

20. A definition of Man by Alfred Korzybski.

21. A list of the 9 Muses.

22. A list of puns and the use of the word Will in the sonnets.

23. Definitons of Tragedy, Comedy and History.

24. A list of the dates when the quartos were published.

25. Where you can hear William Sutton reciting the sonnets. These sonnets can also be heard on the i-phone, i-pad application.

26. A list of Sh’s contemporaries from Wikipedia.

27. A collection of poems about Shakespeare.

28. A collection of poems about language.

29. A list of all mentions of Shakespeare by his contemporary Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia.

30. Last but not least, a list of the chronology of Shakespeare’s plays from Wiki.

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