Packet 2: Tossup 16

In The Taming of the Shrew, Tranio suggests that the suitors be like these people and “strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.” Before Yorick, two skulls that Hamlet thinks belong to a courtier and one of these people are turned up by the gravediggers, who begin the scene (10[1])by mimicking these people. (-5[1])The first (-5[1])performances of Gorboduc and The Comedy of Errors were in front of these people at their annual Christmas “revels.” A (-5[1])man with this job (-5[1])named Bellario (10[1])writes a letter introducing his cousin (-5[1])as a young person with this job, (0[1]-5[1])who then calls a concept “mightiest in the mightiest” and “twice blest.” (10[1])After Jack Cade promises (10[1])to abolish money, Dick the Butcher (10[1])suggests “The first thing (10[1])we do, (10[2])let’s kill (10[1])all” (10[3])people with this job. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Portia delivers the “quality of mercy” (-5[2])speech in disguise (10[1])as a member of what (10[1])profession? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[3])

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