The clues below all refer to dramatic characters called ‘John’. Can you tell me their surnames, the plays in which they appear and the authors of those plays ?
- He describes England as ‘a precious stone, set in the silver sea’.
- This John was a priest during the Wars of the Roses.
- A haunting presence, abusive ex-husband of Genevieve.
- Usually called ‘Jack’, a young eligible bachelor.
- Bishop of Ely in a play named after a king.
- Who says ” You can walk down any corridor in this school and you know, no one bothers you and if you want something it’s yours and no one bothers you and everyone respects you and everyone’s scared of you and who made that, I mean, I’m not boasting, but who made that happen ?”
- “Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment: so answer France.” Whose words ? - ” Because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life !” What name are we talking about ?
- In the dramatis personae he’s described as ‘the bastard brother of Don Pedro’.
- ‘He is prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable ( mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open ), possibly a little mad.’ Who is being described in this stage direction ? ( N.B. He’s usually known as Jack rather than John.)
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