Geography
This place is where the changeling boy coveted by Titania and Oberon was conceived.
What is India?
This messenger god and psychopomp is referenced in a character's name in Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Mercury?
An example of this rhetorical device occurs when Lavinia is found by Marcus and when Mercutio rants about Queen Mab.
What is ekphrasis?
These characters' innuendo-laden banter introduces us to the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet.
Who are Samson and Gregory?
This monarch died in 1603.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
This setting connotes legalism, political order, democracy, and philosophy.
What is Athens?
Before her defeat by Theseus, Hippolyta was queen of this people.
What are the Amazons?
These terms refer respectively to before and after the biblical Fall of Adam and Eve into original sin.
What are pre- and post-lapsarian?
This character is described as having a "lean and hungry look" and "[thinking] too much."
Who is Cassius?
This force's defeat by the English in 1588 was interpreted by many as divine intervention and fueled Early Modern English nationalism.
What is the Spanish Armada?
This place name literally means "big green spring."
What is Verona?
This Roman emperor would have been recognizable to most of Shakespeare's audience as the one whose taxation policy indirectly led to Jesus being born in Bethlehem.
Caesar Augustus, aka Octavius Caesar, aka Octavian
This word refers to back-and-forth verbal sparring between alternate speakers in poetry or drama.
What is stichomythia?
This character threatens to have Hermia put to death, but is eventually overruled by Theseus.
This item was presented to wedding guests as proof that newlyweds had consummated the marriage.
What is (the deal with) the bloody sheet?
With its domed roof and crowd of groundlings, the Globe Theatre was reminiscent of this space during the first play to be staged there.
What is the Roman forum?
According to Roman tradition, this woman's rape and suicide sparked the end of the tyranny of Roman kings and the beginning of the Roman Republic.
Who is Lucrece?
This word means the ritual tearing apart of a body.
What is sparagmos?
This character's death at the beginning of the play sets off the bloody series of revenge plots that consume most of the cast of Titus Andronicus.
Who is Albarus?
This important and controversial document was created and publicly displayed in Wittenberg in 1517.
What were Martin Luther's 95 Theses?
A character flees to this city in Romeo and Juliet.
What is Mantua?
This man was the father of Portia, and his choice of suicide rather than capture serves as a model of stoicism for many characters by the end of Julius Caesar.
Who was Cato?
This word refers to an irresolvable contradiction within a text.
What is aporia?
This character is slave to Cassius and assists in his suicide before fleeing.
Who is Pindarus?
This drawing is the first image of a Shakespeare production that we have.
What is the Peachum drawing of Titus Andronicus?