How to enjoy Shakespeare
An English professor named George Soule at Carleton College (my alma mater) appeared on Jeopardy in the early 1990s. He was astounded when the Final Jeopardy category was Shakespeare. He was a Shakespeare scholar! How could he go wrong?
This was the clue:
“The three word title of this play begins and ends with the same seven-letter word.”
Now, there are only so many Shakespeare plays to choose from, but poor George Soule was stumped. He couldn’t come up with the correct answer before the Jeopardy music timed out. He wrote All’s Well that Ends Well, knowing it was incorrect.
(The correct answer is “What is Measure for Measure?”)
Imagine having to go back to your colleagues on the English faculty after having missed a question on Jeopardy about your area of expertise.
The lesson here: even English professors don’t know everything about Shakespeare.
So don’t feel bad if you don’t either.
Read my suggestions for enjoying Shakespeare over on Medium!
This was the clue:
“The three word title of this play begins and ends with the same seven-letter word.”
Now, there are only so many Shakespeare plays to choose from, but poor George Soule was stumped. He couldn’t come up with the correct answer before the Jeopardy music timed out. He wrote All’s Well that Ends Well, knowing it was incorrect.
(The correct answer is “What is Measure for Measure?”)
Imagine having to go back to your colleagues on the English faculty after having missed a question on Jeopardy about your area of expertise.
The lesson here: even English professors don’t know everything about Shakespeare.
So don’t feel bad if you don’t either.
Read my suggestions for enjoying Shakespeare over on Medium!
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