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Kat Meow
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Counting by Kat Meow

July 13th, 2006 10:21 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Count or measure something that has never been counted or measured before. How many CDs can you label with one sharpie? How long does it take for all the ketchup to run out of the bottle? How many times does a trafic light change in an hour? How many licks does it taket to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

What do you wonder about? Find out and let us know.

How many times does Shakespeare use the word "bastard" in his plays?

All’s Well That Ends Well – 1
As You Like It – 1
“Wicked bastard of Venus”
Comedy of Errors – 1
Cymbeline – 1
“We are all bastards”
Love’s Labour Lost – 1
Measure for Measure – 2
Merchant of Venice – 2
Merry Wives of Windsor – 0
Midsummer Night’s Dream – 0
Much Ado About Nothing – 2
Pericles – 1
Taming of the Shrew – 0
Tempest – 1
Troilos & Cressida – 10
“I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard
begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard
in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will
not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the
son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:
farewell, bastard.”
Twelfth Night – 0
Two Gentleman of Verona –1
Winter’s Tale – 10
Comedies – 34 or 2 times per play

Henry IV p1 – 2
Henry IV p2 – 2
“thou bastardly rogue”
Henry V – 4
Henry VI p1 – 10, 6 referring to Bastard of Orleans, the character, by stated name.
Henry VI p2 – 3
Henry VI p3 – 0
Henry VIII – 0
King John – 8
Richard II – 1
Richard III – 6
Histories – 36 or 3.6 times per play

Antony & Cleopatra – 0
Corialonus – 3
Hamlet – 1
Julius Caesar – 2
King Lear – 9
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”
Macbeth – 0
Othello – 0
Romeo & Juliet – 0
Timon of Athens – 3
Titus Andronicus - 2
Tragedy – 19 or 1.9 times per play

89 times or 2.4 times per play

- smaller

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

From WC's Shakespeare Society's production of King Lear



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posted by Sean Mahan on July 13th, 2006 10:54 PM

Vote for the rate stats - who knew "bastard" wasn't so much funny as it is historical?

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posted by r0ck c4ndy on July 15th, 2006 9:10 AM

That's pretty funny!

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posted by Anna Louise on January 17th, 2011 6:48 AM

Oooh, you've made me want to read Troilos & Cressida now! :-D

Brilliant counting!