What are English (Shakespearean) and Italian (Petrarchan)?
100
Written parts for the actors to speak
What is scripting?
100
The number of children Shakespeare had
What is three?
200
These people had to cover their faces if they attended the theatre
Who are women?
200
This closed theaters at the height of Shakespeare's career
What is the plague?
200
This type of sonnet usually ends in a couplet
What is English (Shakespearean)?
200
Written instructions for the movements of the actors
What are stage directions?
200
The age at which Shakespeare's son died
What is eleven?
300
Tragedy usually includes this type of decision, in which the character must decide what he believes is right and wrong
What is a moral decision?
300
Shakespeare's plays often display a fascination with this
What is death?
300
Shakespeare often wrote in this format, which has five beats per line, but does not rhyme
What is blank verse?
300
A humorous scene, incident, or speech in a serious drama written to provide a break from the emotional intensity or to heighten the seriousness of the story
What is comic relief?
300
The difference in age between Shakespeare's two youngest children
What is none? (They were twins.)
400
In tragedy, this character causes all the protagonist's problems
Who is the protagonist himself?
400
Shakespeare's play that dealt with problems between a father and his daughters, possibly a reflection of his own life
What is "King Lear"?
400
The word "sonnet" comes from the Italian word "sonetto," meaning this
What is "little song" or "little sound"?
400
A long speech given by one character while the other characters listen
What is a monologue?
400
The age difference between Shakespeare and his wife
What is eight years? (She was older.)
500
In tragedy, the protagonist must do one of these two things in the end
What is die or be destroyed?
500
Shakespeare's plays are almost all based on one of these two things
What are history and previously written stories?
500
This artist was also a writer of sonnets
Who is Michelangelo?
500
A long speech given by one actor, designed to let the audience know what that character is thinking
What is a soliloquy?
500
The person who inherited most of Shakespeare's estate