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1. Challenger: Laertes
Reason for challenge: I am simply challenging the Prince of Denmark to a friendly fencing match. There is no way it turns into a highly fatal duel or anything, even though he just killed my father and drove my sister to suicide.
Who is the challenged party?
2. Challenger: Mercutio
Reason for challenge: This guy just challenged my friend to a duel, and my friend just turned him down! This disgrace will not stand! I don't know what made my friend back down, but this dog is going down one way or another. I challenge him in my friend's stead!
Who is the challenged party?
3. Challenger: Roderigo
Reason for challenge: I'm in love with Desdemona, even though she's married. Turns out she's aiming at this other military officer, her husband's ex-lieutenant who she's helping to get his job back! I will wait for him in the dark and jump him as a way to overleap his affront to my pursuit of the fair Desdemona!
Who is the challenged party?
4. Challenger: Harry Percy, aka Hotspur
Reason for challenge: I've been leading this rebellion for a whole play now, all of "Henry IV Part I", and it finally has come to a head. I know I need to defeat my lifelong enemy on the king's side, he has always hated me and I have always hated him. He's a highborn ne'er-do-well and I'm a proper soldier, so we've been on a collision course for ages.
Who is the challenged party?
5. Challenger: Benedick
Reason for challenge: The love of my life, Beatrice, has just asked me to challenge someone to a fight to the death. I don't really want to because he's my friend but I have to, I love her! Also this guy did slander her cousin in public, causing immense shame. Yeah, I'll go challenge him now.
Who is the challenged party?
6. Challenge: Cloten
Reason for challenge: I am the son of the Queen and stepson of the king, Cymbeline, and on my way to seek out Posthumus, my enemy. But instead I run into a surly backwoods knave who taunts me and calls me stupid! The arrogance! I will fight him immediately!
Who is the challenged party?
7. Challenger: Earl of Richmond
Reason for challenge: My opponent is a wretched tyrant who killed the sons of Edward IV. He's a cruel, physically deformed man with no mercy or right to the throne. I will challenge and kill him to do my nation right and reunite the warring factions of England.
Who is the challenged party?
8. Challenger: Edgar
Reason for challenge: I have, since my flight from court, followed the awful plight of my father, the Earl of Gloucester, and the poor old King Lear. I realize now that my brother, who I thought was my friend and ally, is the one responsible for having my father so cruelly abused. He just offered to fight whoever challenged him for crimes he has committed - I will challenge him!
Who is the challenged party?
9. Challenger: Henry Bolingbroke
Reason for challenge: This guy I want to fight killed my uncle, the duke of Gloucester. Now, I know that the king, Richard II, put him up to it but I don't care, I want to make the point that even kings can't order deaths like this for their political gain. So I challenged him in full view of the court and now he HAS to fight me.
Who is the challenged party?
10. Challenger: Macduff
Reason for challenge: This tyrant king has killed my wife and children, and run my country into the ground. For Scotland!
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