Baker’s Dozen III

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781

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
782

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
783

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
784

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV

As the OP I just want to say that previously mentioned plays are fair game
And I learned recently that the Rosencrantz family were real life Danish nobles

785

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
786

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Nick Bottom, the weaver from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
787

The Bard of Avon has such a wealth of works, I don’t really think that we’d need to duplicate ourselves (I can, off the top of my head, think of three plays that have yet to be mentioned). Of course, that’s just my opinion on the matter.

-“BB”-

788

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Nick Bottom, the weaver from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  10. Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus
789

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Nick Bottom, the weaver from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  10. Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus
  11. Desdemona, wife of Othello
790

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Nick Bottom, the weaver from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  10. Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus
  11. Desdemona, wife of Othello
  12. Grumio, Petruchio’s old servant in Taming of the Shrew
791

Characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems

  1. The “fair friend” / “fair youth” of the Sonnets
  2. Lord Macduff, Thane of Fife from Macbeth
  3. Valentine and Proteus, the Two Gentlemen of Verona
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former friends of Hamlet sent to spy on him
  5. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend from Romeo & Juliet
  6. Falstaff, Prince Hal’s avuncular buddy and all-around fun guy in Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  7. Henry IV
  8. Hero, Beatrice’s cousin in Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Nick Bottom, the weaver from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  10. Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus
  11. Desdemona, wife of Othello
  12. Grumio, Petruchio’s old servant in Taming of the Shrew
  13. Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan turned sorcerer in The Tempest

PASS

792

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
793

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)

-“BB”-

794

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
795

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
796

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
  5. Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London”
797

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
  5. Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London”
  6. Mary Morstan, aka Mrs Mary Watson
798

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
  5. Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London”
  6. Mary Morstan, aka Mrs Mary Watson
  7. Irene Adler, the Woman
799

I.S.I.S. was listed twice in an earlier round about fictional spy agencies, so I’ll substitute:

S.I. - Starfleet Intelligence (sometimes listed as S.F.I.), Star Trek

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
  5. Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London”
  6. Mary Morstan, aka Mrs Mary Watson
  7. Irene Adler, the Woman
  8. Silver Blaze, the celebrated racehorse
800

Characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon other than Holmes and Watson

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade
  2. Mrs. Hudson (landlady/occasional housekeeper of 221-B Baker Street)
  3. The Baker Street Irregulars
  4. Jabez Wilson, a red-headed client
  5. Charles Augustus Milverton, “the worst man in London”
  6. Mary Morstan, aka Mrs Mary Watson
  7. Irene Adler, the Woman
  8. Silver Blaze, the celebrated racehorse
  9. Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist