About Shakespeare
The year Shakespeare was born.
What is 1564?
Another name for the Elizabethan period.
What is the Renaissance?
The year the Globe Theater was erected.
What is 1599?
Name of the first theater.
What is The Theater?
William Shakespeare's ability to summarize the human experience by exploring a range of human emotions is one reason why we still do this today.
What is STUDY Shakespeare?
The day Shakespeare was born and the day Shakespeare died.
What is April 23?
Another way to describe the Renaissance.
What are new beginnings, new ideas, new thinking?
Where the Globe Theater is located.
What is London?
Where some rich people sat to see the performance.
What is on a chair on the side of the stage?
Shakespeare's characters are complex and we can see ourselves in them. This is one reason why his characters have remained _______________.
What is popular.
The year Shakespeare died.
What is 1616?
One significant invention during this period that distributes the news.
What is the printing press?
Name one additional theaters in the same area as the Globe Theater.
What is the Theater, Swan, Rose, and Hope.
Reason why most performances were held during the day.
What is Natural Lighting?
This play by Shakespeare involves two love struck teens.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare's age at the time of his death
What is 52?
During the Renaissance, (Elizabethan Period), UNEXPLAINED events were blamed on these people.
Who are witches?
The year the Globe burned down.
What is 1613?
Women parts were usually played by this group of people.
What is boys or young men?
The type of production commonly associated with death.
What is Tragedy?
An interesting fact about April 23.
What is the day Shakespeare died and the day he was born?
Two superstitions during this period.
What are
an eclipse, spilling salt and pepper, walking under a ladder, witches, sneezing, black cats, touching wood, etc.
This caused the Globe to burn down.
What is a canon shot?
The number of people theaters were able to hold.
What is thousands or several thousand?
The name of the play we will be studying in class.
What is Macbeth?