Time to make your English teacher beam with pride. That, or deny ever having met you.

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1. Which author is famously known as The Bard or The Bard of Avon?

2. Match the quotes to the plays…

a. ‘Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.’

b. ‘If she lives till doomsday, she’ll burn a week longer than the whole world.’

c. ‘They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.’

d. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

e. ‘thou are easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.’

f. ‘How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!’

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One of Vancouver’s most unique annual events is Bard on the Beach. Now in its 26th season, this Shakespearean festival takes place in pointy-tipped white tents on Vancouver’s Vanier Park waterfront.

Christopher Gaze, Bard’s Founding Artistic Director brings together top directors and actors, whilst also taking on key acting and directing roles himself.

This summer, you can hear the above quotes in beachside performances of The Comedy of Errors, King Lear and Love’s Labour Lost.

b. ‘If she lives till doomsday, she’ll burn a week longer than the whole world.’

f. ‘How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!’

a. ‘Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.’

d. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

c. ‘They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.’

e. ‘thou are easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.’