# Bakers Dozen
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173
**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
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19543 "2013-08-29T14:52:31Z")
Shakespearean Who Loved Whom (with plays)
1. Oberon loved Titania, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
2. Romeo loved Rosaline, “Romeo and Juliet”
3. Cordelia loved Lear, “King Lear”
4. Helena loved Demetrius, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
5. Troilus loved Cressida, “Troilus and Cressida”
6. Benedick loved Beatrice (though he took some persuading!), “Much Ado About Nothing”
7. Shakespeare loved the Dark Lady, “Sonnet 151”
8. Ophelia loved Hamlet, “Hamlet”
9. Olivia loves Viola (who, she thinks, is a man named Cesario) in “Twelfth Night”
10. Katherine loved Petruccho, eventually, “Taming of the Shrew”
11. Count Orsino loved Lady Olivia, “Twelfth Night”
12. Leontes loved Hermione, “The Winter’s Tale”
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19544 "2013-08-29T15:56:14Z")
Shakespearean Who Loved Whom (with plays)
1. Oberon loved Titania, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
2. Romeo loved Rosaline, “Romeo and Juliet”
3. Cordelia loved Lear, “King Lear”
4. Helena loved Demetrius, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
5. Troilus loved Cressida, “Troilus and Cressida”
6. Benedick loved Beatrice (though he took some persuading!), “Much Ado About Nothing”
7. Shakespeare loved the Dark Lady, “Sonnet 151”
8. Ophelia loved Hamlet, “Hamlet”
9. Olivia loves Viola (who, she thinks, is a man named Cesario) in “Twelfth Night”
10. Katherine loved Petruccho, eventually, “Taming of the Shrew”
11. Count Orsino loved Lady Olivia, “Twelfth Night”
12. Leontes loved Hermione, “The Winter’s Tale”
13. Bassanio loves Portia, in _ **The Merchant of Venice** _
New Topic: Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ _ **Oedipus Rex** _, written in Greek
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19545 "2013-08-29T15:58:02Z")
New Topic: Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s _No Exit_, written in French
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19546 "2013-08-29T16:01:11Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s _ **A Doll’s House** _, written in Norwegian
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19547 "2013-08-29T16:05:53Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s _ **A Doll’s House** _, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s _Uncle Vanya_, written in Russian
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19548 "2013-08-29T17:14:44Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s _ **A Doll’s House** _, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s _Uncle Vanya_, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s _Faust_, written in German
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19549 "2013-08-29T17:18:22Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s _ **A Doll’s House** _, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s _Uncle Vanya_, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s _Faust_, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ **Agamemno** _n_, written in Greek.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19550 "2013-08-29T17:22:17Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s _ **Six Characters in Search of an Author** _, written in Italian
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19551 "2013-08-29T17:52:25Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ _Oedipus Rex_, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s _No Exit_, written in French
3. Ibsen’s _A Doll’s House_, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s _Uncle Vanya_, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s _Faust_, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ _Agamemnon_, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s _ **Six Characters in Search of an Author** _, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s _Bodas de Sangre_ (_Blood Wedding_), written in Spanish
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19552 "2013-08-29T18:41:05Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s\*\*\* Miss Julie\*\*\*, written in Swedish
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19553 "2013-08-29T19:21:28Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19554 "2013-08-29T20:27:20Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
11. Candied by Voltaire, written in French
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19555 "2013-08-29T20:29:06Z")
[uh, Annie? Candide isn’t a play, it’s a novella. It is great, though.]
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19556 "2013-08-29T20:38:09Z")
I’ve seen it on stage so many times I thought it was written as a play. Ignorance fought!
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19557 "2013-08-29T20:49:50Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
11. Plautus’ _ **Amphitryon** _, written in Latin
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19558 "2013-08-29T21:40:26Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
11. Plautus’ Amphitryon, written in Latin
12. Broken Nestle by A. Hagverdiyev, written in Azerbaijani
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19559 "2013-08-29T23:57:04Z")
Great Plays Written in a Language Other Than English
1. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written in Greek
2. Sartre’s No Exit, written in French
3. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, written in Norwegian
4. Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, written in Russian
5. Goethe’s Faust, written in German
6. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, written in Greek.
7. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, written in Italian
8. Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), written in Spanish
9. Strindberg’s Miss Julie, written in Swedish
10. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, by S. Ansky, written in Yiddish
11. Plautus’ Amphitryon, written in Latin
12. Broken Nestle by A. Hagverdiyev, written in Azerbaijani
13. Mishima’s _My Friend Hitler_, written in Japanese
Cities in Japan
1. Tokyo
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19560 "2013-08-30T00:11:08Z")
Cities in Japan
1. Tokyo
2. Kyoto
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19561 "2013-08-30T00:28:45Z")
Cities in Japan
1. Tokyo
2. Kyoto
3. Yokosuka (my hometown!)
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### Author:  [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/19562 "2013-08-30T00:29:15Z")
Cities in Japan
1. Tokyo
2. Kyoto
3. Yokosuka (my hometown!)
4. Kobe
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