One of the title characters of this play threatens "I shall live to knock thy brains out with my shackles" to his jailer in the second act. Though it is set in Ancient Greece, this play includes a scene in which a schoolmaster, a taborer, and countrymen perform a morris dance that entertains Perithous. This play ends with a messenger arriving and stating that a character has died from falling off his horse, which stops an impending execution and allows Hippolyta's sister Emilia to marry the condemned. This play opens wi
One of the title characters of this play threatens "I shall live to knock thy brains out with my shackles" to his jailer in the second act. Though it is set in Ancient Greece, this play includes a scene in which a schoolmaster, a taborer, and countrymen perform a morris dance that entertains Perithous. This play ends with a messenger arriving and stating that a character has died from falling off his horse, which stops an impending execution and allows Hippolyta's sister Emilia to marry the condemned. This play opens with three queens complaining to the duke of Athens that Creon has killed each of their husbands. Most of its action focuses on Arcite and Palamon, the title characters. Based on The Knight's Tale, this is, for 10 points, what collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher?
One of the title characters of this play threatens "I shall live to knock thy brains out with my shackles" to his jailer in the second act.