"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

[WendyWeber]

Who said that, and where does it come from?

No cheating!

When I was small my dad used to belong to a local social-and-drama group who would put on one of the comedies every summer in the huge and beautiful garden of the house of one of the members - I remember (vaguely) seeing Dream, Twelfth Night and Merry Wives of Windsor. And it never rained! (Used to get quite bitey at dusk though)

Also saw Macbeth in the round at a theatre in Ealing when we were doing it for O or A level (forget which). And my school helpfully put on the Tempest around the time we were doing that; sadly both Prospero and Miranda were cast because they were goody-goodies, and they were woodentops as actors, but Caliban was impressive, and some of the lines stuck

I think the last one I saw was As You Like It at the Barbican and had a rather young Joseph Fiennes in it. And Niamh Cusack was Rosalind. The guy who played Touchstone was very funny. But that must be over a decade ago.

I may be imagining it but I'm sure I saw Leslie Phillips in Merry Wives. Does Falstaff have the line 'well hello' whilst dressed as a Doctor?

This calls for Google...

17/18 - but I do have an english degree which focussed on shakespeare. Was irritated to get one wrong but I honestly didn't have a clue about this one:

"Thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself"
4859 Much Ado About Nothing
4917 Love's Labour's Lost
3474 Measure for Measure

Did anyone get this?

Nope - wrong guess here, and I've forgotten which was the right play. I think I guessed LLL but was it actually Much Ado?

I guessed a Dream quote about love wrong too (though veered a bit first)

saw lord percy percy from blackadder as hamlet way back in the day. was a very confusing thing to try and overcome and take seriously...tim mici8nnery that's it

I like Tim McInnery - but I can see what you mean about Hamlet/Percy!

It was Leslie Phillips as Falstaff, RSC, 1996. And the Joe Fiennes one was '97 - he had a lesser role in As You Like It because he had that seasons lead in Troilus & Cressida. Since then I've only been to see Henry V. Must try harder.

City lunches would be thinly attended if anyone took Shakespeare to heart on this one .