by Sirius Gibson5 November 20181:14 pm20 April 2020 Akala or Shakespeare? Welcome to the Akala or Shakespeare? quiz. Akala's Hip-hop Shakespeare Company explores the parallels between Shakespeare and hip-hop. He often challenges lecture audiences to identify quotes as either hip-hop or Shakespeare. But can you identify which of the following quotes are from Akala's own songs and which are Shakespeare's? "We know what we are But know not what we may be"AkalaShakespeare "My friends were poor but honest"AkalaShakespeare "All that you see me do I own but I Won't hang what I make around my neck"AkalaShakespeare "The greed you’re talking about is worse than lust Because you won’t outgrow it"AkalaShakespeare "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die like fire and powder"AkalaShakespeare "Accept laws that I know that deceive me So I can sleep in my bed"AkalaShakespeare "I take fear and peer into the hearts of men And show you they're cowards"AkalaShakespeare "Eliminate the foes who propose To suppose a different course"AkalaShakespeare "The schools of Timbuktu they already knew The cycles of the planet and the motion of the moon"AkalaShakespeare "Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme"AkalaShakespeare Akala has described Shakespeare as "the quantum physics of literature" - but did you find this quiz that hard? Time is Up! Read about how Akala is “making it cool to be clever” Watch Akala’s speech at his honorary graduation ceremony Which Oxford Brookes alumnus has brought multiple-Oscar winning films to the screen?
