Tudors
Ruled England during the Golden Age from 1558-1603
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
Pre-pubescent boys (11-12 years old) played all female parts in English play.
What is "females could not be actors"?
Born and retired to this childhood home.
What is Stratford-on-Avon?
Shakespeare's friend who is said to have actually written his plays and poems (and who died in a bar room brawl).
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Name of the acting group owned by Burbage and Shakespeare.
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men (changed to King's Men after Elizabeth's death)?
Known as "Bloody" she wanted England to be Catholic during her reign as Queen from 1553-1558
Who is Queen Mary?
Playhouses and public places closed when the death toll reached too high due to this disease.
What is the plague?
Married her when she was 26 and he was 18.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
The reason Shakespeare's sexuality is sometimes questioned.
What is he wrote poetry for men OR he played female parts in plays?
14 lined poem with a specific rhyme pattern
What is a sonnet?
Broke England away from the Catholic Church in order to form the Church of England so he could divorce his SIXTH wife.
Who is King Henry VIII?
The reason the King parted ways from the Catholic Church and formed the Church of England.
What is "Catholicism did not allow for divorce"?
Name Shakespeare's three children.
Who are Susanna, Judith, and Hamlet?
Name three words Shakespeare coined.
Words will be verified through Google...
Traveled to the New World to populate Virginia.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
Ruled England from 1547 to 1553 when he was only six years old.
Who was King Edward VI?
The payment given to the groom upon marrying the daughter (most probably in an arranged marriage).
What is a dowry?
Profession of Shakespeare's father.
What is a glove maker?
The crime for which Queen Elizabeth is often accused (in order to be with the love of her life).
What is murder the wife of Thomas Dudley? (not necessary to know his name)
What Renaissance actually means
What is re-birth?
Number of times Queen Elizabeth I married in order to maintain a Tudor legacy after her death.
What is none?
Name the levels (in order from greatest to least) in the caste system of English society.
What is Royal Family, Nobility (included knights), Clergy, Gentry, Peasants?
Shakespeare's headstone threatens this.
What is "a curse on the man who moves his bones"?
Lived with the Earl of Southampton, privately tutored, and rumored to have written the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare.
Who is the illegitimate child of Queen Elizabeth I (Henry Wriothesley)?
The two former countries which the English Renaissance studied.
What is Greece and Rome (Italy)?