{"id":1657,"date":"2010-04-09T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:57:30","slug":"speaking-of-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Shakespeare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s announcement that the BBC will be releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuregamers.com\/newsitem.php?id=2070\" target=\"new\">free Doctor Who adventure games<\/a> in the near future reminded me of another free BBC game I played a few years ago that I really enjoyed&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/shakespeare\/game.shtml\" target=\"new\">The Seven Noble Kinsmen: A Shakespeare Murder Mystery<\/a>. To be honest I don&#8217;t remember much about it except that it stood out as a really high-quality game, considering its zero dollar (or pound) price tag. But I guess that&#8217;s to be expected from the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>This is a browser-based game that takes place in a creepy old theater. If I recall correctly, the premise is sort of like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NKRIZC?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thedenofslack-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000NKRIZC\">And Then There Were None<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thedenofslack-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000NKRIZC\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, with a bunch of people invited to the theater who start dying one by one. There are even multiple endings. While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1636\" target=\"new\">mif2000&#8217;s Hamlet<\/a> puts more of a surreal spin on Shakespeare, The Seven Noble Kinsmen is more dramatic and atmospheric. They&#8217;re like two ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have Shakespeare on the brain, I might just have to replay it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s announcement that the BBC will be releasing free Doctor Who adventure games in the near future reminded me of another free BBC game I played a few years ago that I really enjoyed&mdash;The Seven Noble Kinsmen: A Shakespeare Murder Mystery. To be honest I don&#8217;t remember much about it except that it stood out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}