Question
Suspecting that this play was a forgery, actor John Philip Kemble sarcastically said the line, “And when this solemn mockery is ended” to elicit laughs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this supposed lost Shakespeare play that William Henry Ireland claimed to have discovered in 1796. This play’s plot concerns the aftermath of the murder of the Briton king Constantius.
ANSWER: Vortigern and Rowena [or Vortigern, an Historical Play]
[10m] The Stationers’ Register credits this man with co-writing Shakespeare’s lost play Cardenio, which is based on an episode from Don Quixote. Palamon and Arcite quarrel over Emilia in another play by this man and Shakespeare.
ANSWER: John Fletcher (The second play is The Two Noble Kinsmen.)
[10e] Another lost Shakespeare play may have been a sequel to this comedy, in which the king of Navarre and three of his lords try to avoid women for three years.
ANSWER: Love’s Labour’s Lost (The possible lost sequel is Love’s Labour’s Won.)
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