> Okay, I'll try my hand here.
>
> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, thefool75
> <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > This man's love life was depicted fictionally in
> the novel Nothing
> > Like the Sun, by Anthony Burgess.
>
> Three problems here:
>
> 1) The line "nothing like the sun", from Sonnet 130,
> is too well-known to appear in a lead-in.
Not every work of literature with a lead-in taken from Shakespeare
has the Bard as a character (or else I did not read Faulkner closely
enough).
> 3) I don't appreciate the fact that the first clue
> in the Shakespeare
> TU is actually a clue on Anthony Burgess.
Is this because you don't consider Burgess to be "literature" in the
same way that Nathan Freeburg denies that Alice Walker
is "literature"?
> > FTP, name this author who also worked with John
> > Fletcher on the Two Noble Kinsmen.
>
> ...so why aren't there more questions on Thomas
> Middleton, anyway?
I'll write a tossup for the next tournament you moderate at.
Anthony