The Shakespeare Teacher’s Lot …

‘You REALLY don’t know about The Garden of Eden?’

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Your starter for ten – which long running TV quiz programme is parodied here?

Bonus questions: 5 points each (answers at the bottom of the post):

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PTS 03/014: Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable …

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“Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.  It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”  (BLANCHE:  A Streetcar Named Desire (scene 10), Tennessee Williams)

Henry VI part III: Act I

So …

Part III begins, as Part II ended, with Warwick, perhaps reinforcing his role as ‘kingmaker’, and with the suspicion – to be dealt with later, maybe – that Henry is a ‘Jonah’ on the battlefield.  Whoever’s side he appears on (note I don’t say ‘fights’ on) he seems to suck the fighting spirit out of the army like a Dementor whose puppy has just been killed in a hit-and-run accident …

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