{"id":1395358,"date":"2022-09-06T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1395358"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:16:18","slug":"quiz-are-you-fluent-in-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-are-you-fluent-in-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Are You Fluent in Shakespeare?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jan4shakespearefluentquizMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To the modern reader, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare&#8217;s plays<\/a> often look like just a bunch of unrelated words mashed together. This is because 1) language is a fluid, constantly evolving beast, and also 2) Shakespeare was an implacable devil host who KNEW his works&nbsp;would be studied by hapless tenth graders 400 years in the future, and so he endeavored to make them as confusing as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did it work? Did he fool you? Can you tell us what the following labyrinthine lines of language mean in normal, everyday English?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the modern reader, Shakespeare&#8217;s plays often look like just a bunch of unrelated words mashed together. This is because 1) language is a fluid, constantly evolving beast, and also 2) Shakespeare was an implacable   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25016],"tags":[524,25017,1134,1653,248,8561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395358"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446784,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395358\/revisions\/1446784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}