Shakespeare's Life
The Bard's Plays
The Taming of the Shrew
Elizabethan Times
Famous Quotes from the Bard of Avon
100
He was a tanner, a glover, and, for a while, the mayor of Stratford On Avon.
What is Shakespeare's father?
100
"Killing her with kindness" is the strategy that Petruchio uses to tame Kate in this play.
What is "The Taming of the Shrew"?
100
She says about marrying Petruchio: "I'll see thee hanged on Sunday first!"
Who is Katharine.
100
Elizabeth I was imprisoned here briefly. Her mother Anne Boleyn was imprisoned here then beheaded.
What is the Tower of London?
100
Name the character and the play. He said, "To be or not to be, that is the question" in this play of the same name.
What is "Hamlet"?
200
Anne Hathaway
What is the name of Shakespeare's wife?
200
Two star-crossed lovers caught in a family feud between the Montagues and the Capulets star in this play. . .
What is "Romeo and Juliet"?
200
He says, "I am firmly resolved not to allow my youngest daughter to be married before I have a husband for her sister."
Who is Baptista?
200
It was much more than a bridge, sort of like a shopping mall. Heads of traitors were displayed here on spikes.
What is London Bridge?
200
Name the character and the play. They say "Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble" in this play.
What is the witches scene from "Macbeth"?
300
Stratford-upon-Avon
What is the name of the town where Shakespeare grew up?
300
The Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of this play. . . It's also the play about Queen Elizabeth's father.
What is "Henry VIII?"
300
He says, "I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, if I do not win this gentle, young girl."
Who is Lucentio?
300
The Spanish had bull fighting; the English had this blood sport (often performed in the same spaces that plays were later held).
What is bear baiting?
300
Name the character and the play. "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Who is Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"?
400
Susanna, Hamnet, Judith.
What are the names of Shakespeare's children?
400
The young prince of Denmark meets his father's ghost in this play.
What is "Hamlet"?
400
She says, "Your husband, being troubled by a shrew, measures my husband's wife by his own."
Who is the Widow?
400
It was banned in London during outbreaks of the plague.
What are plays?
400
Name the character and the play. "Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be?"
Who is Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
500
37 including "Cardenio" based on the novel "Don Quixote" by Cervantes.
What is the number of plays that Shakespeare wrote?
500
Three witches plot to tempt the great Scottish warrior to kill his king in this play. . .
What is "Macbeth"?
500
He says, "Ay sir, they be ready, the oats have eaten the horses."
Who is Grumio?
500
During this era, the printing press was invented, the arts and learning flourished, and there emerged a large, wealthy middle class.
What is the the Renaissance (or the Elizabethan Era in England)?
500
Name the character and the play. "All the world's a stage and all the man and women merely players."
Who is Jacques in "As You Like It"?
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