Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – July 11, 2016

I liked how the experiment went last week, so I’m going to keep up with posting the discussion threads early!

Today’s contestants:

Katie Pieper, a PhD student from Athens, GA

Jason George, a management consultant from Philadelphia, PA

Pam Platt, a writer & editor from Louisville, KY (1-day total: $27,600)

Final Jeopardy! category: SHAKESPEARE

Final Jeopardy! clue: This comedy whose title aims to please says, “I charge you, O men…that between you and the women the play may please”

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From MIT’s collection of the Complete works of William Shakespeare, it’s from Rosalind’s epilogue:

It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue;
but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord
the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs
no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no
epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better by the help of good
epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am
neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with
you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not
become me: my way is to conjure you; and I’ll begin
with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love
you bear to men, to like as much of this play as
please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love
you bear to women–as I perceive by your simpering,
none of you hates them–that between you and the
women the play may please. If I were a woman I
would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased
me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I
defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good
beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my
kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.

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