All’s Will That Ends Will.

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The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is putting on one of The Bard’s lesser known plays as part of their annual Shakespeare In The Park, but then they’ve been going since 1988 and, well, there are only so many ways to put on the same half dozen comedies and a couple of tragedies.
It’s also important when putting on a Shakespeare play to find ways to make it relevant to contemporary audiences, which is why I now offer Shakespeare’s Plays As Episodes Of Friends.
- The One On The Island
- The One With All That King’s Big Speeches
- The One That Happens In The Trojan War
- The One Where A Guy Is Exiled From Rome And Of Course Murdered When He Comes Back Because It’s A Tragedy
5. The One That Goes All Over Italy
- The One Where Two Dudes Almost Get Married, And That Old Dude Comes Back
- The One Where One Woman Stands In For Another Except She’s Lying Down
- The One With A Boatload Of Twins, Literally
- The Other One With The Twins And Also The Obnoxious Butler
- The One With The Lady Pretending To Be A Statue And A Bear Attack
- The First One Of The Three Parters About That King
- The Second One Of The Three Parters About That King
- The Third One Of The Three Partners About That King
- The One Where A Greek Guy Finds A Bunch Of Gold And Dies
- The First One With The Prince And That Old Dude
- The Second One With Even More Of That Old Dude
- The One That’s Not Famous Where Everybody Dies
- The One That Is Famous Where Everybody Dies
- The One With The Suicidal Teens
- The One Where Two People Who Hate Each Other Get Married And No One Dies
- The One With Four Guys Who Quit Dating
- The One Where Everybody Gets Married After A Night In The Woods
- The One Where A Jewish Guy Loses Everything, But It’s A Comedy
- The One Where Some Get Married And Some Get Religion After A Night In The Woods
- The One With The Two Daughters Who Have To Get Married
- The One With The Riddle That Means Marriage Or Death, But It’s A Comedy
- The One With Three Queens That Convince A King To Go To War, But It’s A Comedy
- The One That Doesn’t Mention Either The Magna Carta Or Robin Hood
- The One Where The Roman Leader Falls In Love With Egypt’s Queen And They Both Die
- The One With The Tournament
- The One With The Hunchbacked King Without A Horse
- The One About The King With All The Wives
- The One Where The King Goes To France
- The One That’s In Scotland—You Know, The One We Can’t Say
- The One Where The Salad Guy Is Murdered
- The One With The Crazy King Who Dies Along With His Faithful Daughter Because It’s A Tragedy
- The One With A Black Guy Who’s Tricked By A White Guy And Dies Because It’s A Tragedy
- The One Where A Girl Is In Love With A Guy Who Doesn’t Like Her But It All Works Out In The End
- The One That Ends With A Big Feast But Maybe It’s A Tragedy?
Scoring:
More Than 30-You are a retired English professor and you have tweed pajamas that are older than “Friends”
20-29-Stratford-On-Avon tour guides know you by name
15-19-You’ve acted in Shakespeare In The Park productions several years in a row
10-14-You’ve Been To Stratford-On-Avon once and asked a tour guide, “How you doin’?”
5-9-You’ve heard of Stratford-On-Avon
1-4-You barely passed Freshman English
Answer Key:
- The Tempest
- Henry V
- Troilus And Cressida
- Coriolanus
- Two Gentlemen Of Verona
- The Merry Wives Of Windsor
- Measure For Measure
- The Comedy Of Errors
- Twelfth Night
- The Winter’s Tale
- Henry VI Part 1
- Henry VI Part 2
- Henry VI Part 3
- Timon Of Athens
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Titus Andronicus
- Hamlet
- Romeo And Juliet
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Loves Labour’s Lost
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Merchant Of Venice
- As You Like It
- The Taming Of The Shrew
- Pericles
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- King John
- Antony And Cleopatra
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Henry VIII
- Edward III
- MacBeth
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Othello
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Cymbeline