{"id":1416444,"date":"2024-03-18T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1416444"},"modified":"2024-03-18T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:25:14","slug":"can-you-guess-which-shakespeare-plays-these-movies-were-based-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/can-you-guess-which-shakespeare-plays-these-movies-were-based-on\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Can You Guess Which Shakespeare Plays These Movies Were Based On?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shakespearemoviequizMAIN-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449236\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody has new ideas anymore. Everything nowadays is just a reboot, a sequel, or a spinoff, which I&#8217;m fine with. Coming up with new things is exhausting, and I don&#8217;t blame all the world&#8217;s creatives for collectively throwing up their hands and being like \u201cWhat haven&#8217;t we done recently?&nbsp;<em>Transformers<\/em>? Perfect. Let&#8217;s do another&nbsp;<em>Transformers<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps this is why there are so many different movie versions of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. The bard gave us dozens of perfectly good story templates; the least we can do is remake them in perpetuity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you tell which Shakespeare plays the following movies are based on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has new ideas anymore. Everything nowadays is just a reboot, a sequel, or a spinoff, which I&#8217;m fine with. Coming up with new things is exhausting, and I don&#8217;t blame all the world&#8217;s creatives   <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":[1653,21791,8561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416444"}],"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=1416444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449237,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416444\/revisions\/1449237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}