Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Sonnet has this many lines
What is fourteen
Robert Burns set this traditional folk song to poetic format
Red, Red, Rose
The theatre where Shakespeare and his company put on most of their plays
What is The Globe
This supernatural being was the caretaker of Excalibur everytime Arthur got in a little over his head.
Who is The Lady of the Lake
In this story DH Lawrence puts a chilling touch to ideas of the loving bond between mother and son.
What is "The Rocking Horse Winner"
This Sonnet refers to a "dear friend" and how friendship is more enduring than "guilded monuments."
Sonnet 55
This romantic era poet used repetition as a poetic devise in her poem dedicated to her husand
Who is Elizabeth Bennett Browning
This English monarch liked Shakespeare's work enough to sponsor several of his plays.
Who is Elizabeth 1
This first novel also featured the character Sancho Panza, perhaps the first official sidekick
What is Don Quixote
This son Sologon Kedjou would "rise" to the occasion and tear the great Baobob tree out of the ground.
Who os Sologon Djata
"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks" addresses the timelessness of love in this sonnet
Sonnet 116
This offten used poetic pattern consists of ten syllables divided into five "feet"
What is iambic pentameter
This town was the place of Shakespeare's birth, upbringing, wife, and children, but rarely of Shakespeare himself. hmmmmmmm
Where is Stratford-upon-Avon
Thsi knight in shining armor wanted to keep for himself the shining sword of Arthur, but did relent and sent the sword back to its right place before being the last survivor or the great battle between the forces of Arthur and Mordred
Who is Sir Bedivere?
This writer broke conventions with everything from hair style to disobeying her father's wishes for marriage, to embracing the new ideas of Romanticism in her art
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Also known as "The Notorious EBB")?
In this sonnet, Shakespeare mourns a friend and thinks of remembrance
Sonnet 30
"The Scottish Bard" traveled around Scotland collecting songs and poems long before Fiona Ritchie
Who is Robert Burns
Knowing when to cater to the audience, Shakespeare's acting troupe changed their name to this when this monarch came to the throne of England
The King's Players when James I took the throne.
This advisor to the great Mali king Nare Maghen sounds a little bit like like a wizard from an old English tale?
Who is Balla Fesseke?
This object was a source of conflect between cultures and then between husband and wife in "The Train From Rhodesia"
What is the carved wooden lion?
A four line segment similar to a song verse used to divide the rhyme and meter of a poem like a sonnet
What is a quatrain
This artistic movement of the nineteenth century drew from simple ideas and themes such as nature and focused much more on vivid use of language than large all encompassing themes?
What is Romanticism
Who more than likely actually wrote most of the plays and sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare?
Who is William Shakespeare? Theories have been presented over th years that others such as Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Southhampton but no actual proof to support these theories has ever existed.
This unnamed individual appeared often in Shakespeare's sonnetts 1-116. Who this individual may have been or his relationship to Shakespeare is the source of much speculation.
Who is the "fair youth?"
George Orwell served in the colonial corp in this Asian nation where he shot an elephant.
What is Burma, currently the nation of Myanmar.