# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2147
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42925 "2016-04-24T19:12:52Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42926 "2016-04-24T19:24:32Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42927 "2016-04-24T19:52:33Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42928 "2016-04-24T20:42:59Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. 9. As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in \*As You Like It \* ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42929 "2016-04-24T21:34:09Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. 9. As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It 10. Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions. But Galileo was imprisoned for them 17 years later anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42930 "2016-04-24T23:12:56Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. 9. As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It 10. Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions. 11. There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42931 "2016-04-25T00:35:56Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. 9. As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It 10. Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions. 11. There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. 12. In his will Shakespeare left his wife “the second best bed”. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42932 "2016-04-25T00:58:51Z")
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life 1. His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith 2. He died the same day as Cervantes 3. He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26. 4. There are six surviving copies of his signature 5. His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague 6. He was an actor as well as a playwright. 7. Poets Rupert Brooke and William Wordsworth would also die on April 23 in years unimagined by Shakespeare… 8. His father was a glove maker and leather worker. 9. As an actor he supposedly played the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the old servant Adam in As You Like It 10. Shakespeare died the year Galileo stopped publishing heretical notions. 11. There are only two authentic portraits of William today; the widely used engraving of William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout first published on the title page of the 1623 First Folio and the monument of the great playwright in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. 12. In his will Shakespeare left his wife “the second best bed”. 13. Shakespeare has no living direct descendants, since two of his children never had children and his grandchildren all died young. William Davenant was rumored to be his biological (illegitimate) son but there is no evidence to back up the rumor. About the “second best bed”: supposedly in Jacobean times the “best” bed was for guests and the second best was the marital bed. And maybe Anne liked the second best bed better than the best one. New topic: any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42933 "2016-04-25T01:18:05Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42934 "2016-04-25T01:38:29Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42935 "2016-04-25T02:07:19Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42936 "2016-04-25T02:31:20Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42937 "2016-04-25T02:33:51Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42938 "2016-04-25T03:27:07Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42939 "2016-04-25T03:27:21Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) I forgot to say originally that this is in honor of Prince especially with the shock of his untimely death. RIP Prince Rogers Nelson, or to quote Shakespeare, “good night, sweet prince” ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42940 "2016-04-25T03:35:08Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) 9. “Prince Igor” (opera) by Alexander Borodin ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42941 "2016-04-25T03:41:36Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) 9. “Prince Igor” (opera) by Alexander Borodin 10. “Two Princes” by The Spin Doctors ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42942 "2016-04-25T03:58:34Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) 9. “Prince Igor” (opera) by Alexander Borodin 10. “Two Princes” by The Spin Doctors 11. “Prince of Darkness”, an Ozzy Osbourne album ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42943 "2016-04-25T04:01:02Z")
Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) 9. “Prince Igor” (opera) by Alexander Borodin 10. “Two Princes” by The Spin Doctors 11. “Prince of Darkness”, an Ozzy Osbourne album 12. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ---
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Any title (song, film, literary work) including the word “Prince” 1. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2. The Prince and the Pauper 3. Prince - The Hits, Vol. 1 4. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli 6. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 7. Prince Valiant 8. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) 9. “Prince Igor” (opera) by Alexander Borodin 10. “Two Princes” by The Spin Doctors 11. “Prince of Darkness”, an Ozzy Osbourne album 12. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 13. “Someday My Prince Will Come” (Snow White) Next: Ed O’Neill roles pre-“Modern Family” 14. Popeye Doyle [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2146) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2148)