This month’s Crocodile Mystery is a group affair. Share your thoughts on what these items have in common in the comments section! (Answers of “on paper” or “beige,” although true, don’t count).
“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2018
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I suppose “plays” doesn’t count either?
That’s a great first step! They’re about a special kind of play…
Well, if it weren’t for the third image, I would have guessed “comedies”, but that one clearly contains several tragedies (and the fifth one probably does as well). So I think I’ll have to stick with “plays” for now!
… plays performed during Christmas-season festivities staged by The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn ?
Are they lost plays?
No, I spy a lot of extant titles.
looks like it was right – I guess it was that each image *contains* a lost play title
With Meaghan’s hint, I’m going to guess they all contain a reference to a revenge tragedy.
I’m not 100% certain, but I don’t think the John Day play mentioned in the first source is a revenge tragedy. How about plays with sequels / plays consisting of more than one “part”?
Or plays featuring kings, come to think of it. I’m pretty sure there’s at least one in every document.
Written pages look like a hodgepodge of plays that were finally all published alphabetically in a printed text