- "Shakespeare said, "First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers". He was wrong. We should start with the diplomats."
- ―Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma[src]
William Shakespeare was a famous English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
Biography[]
William Shakespeare was the author of Hamlet[1] and Richard II.[2]
Legacy[]
The Stroud Hall of Marshall College had one room is fitted with a small stage for drama classes and those studying and taging the plays of Shakespeare.[3]
In 1916, Indiana Jones recognized Robert Graves as having quoted Shakespeare's Richard II which prompted Siegfried Sassoon to ask Jones his opinion on Dreamers, one of Sassoon's poems.[2]
Four years later, Jones told Kate Rivers that Shakespeare was his favorite poet.[4]
Shakespeare was quoted on a plaque in Venice's Biblioteca di San Barnaba in 1938: "Charming town. I was particularly taken with a tradesman I met."[5]
Behind the scenes[]
The library quote in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure[5] is a humorous LucasArts reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice.
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Somme, Early August 1916" → Trenches of Hell (Mentioned only)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Austria, March 1917" → Adventures in the Secret Service (Mentioned only)
- The Secret Treaty (Mentioned only)
- Vienna, March 1917 (Mentioned only)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" → Scandal of 1920 (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones und das Erbe von Avalon (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Somme, Early August 1916" → Trenches of Hell
- ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" → Scandal of 1920
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure