Early Life
Friends and Family
Career
The Globe
Death and Mystery
100

This is where Shakespeare was born

Stratford-Upon-Avon

100

Died young

Hamnet

100

This man called Shakespeare an "upstart crow" in his magazine in 1592 (our first evidence of Shakespeare working in London)

Robert Greene

100

The seating sections in the theatre

Galleries

100

This is what Shakespeare willed his wife, Ann

His second best bed (and all the furniture)

200

Shakespeare's mother

Mary Arden

200

John Shakespeare made these for a living

Gloves

200

The gas-lit theatre where Shakespeare's troupe also performed

The Blackfriar's

200

The roof of the tirehouse is made of this (now banned in London)

Thatch

200

This is the date and year of Shakespeare's death

April 23, 1616

300

The school that Shakespeare most likely attended

The King's New School 

300

Ann Hathaway was this age when William Shakespeare, then 18, married her

26

300

The year the First Folio was published

1623

300

The Globe was built from the very timbers of this building.... bit of an obvious name.

The Theatre

300

This was willed to Shakespeare's neighbor, Hamnet Sadler

Shakespeare's sword

400

A period of time between 1585 and 1592 during which... we don't know what Shakespeare was up to.

The Lost Years

400

Shakespeare's daughter who married a doctor, favored in the will

Susanna

400

The name of Shakespeare's company shortly AFTER James' ascension to the throne

The King's Men

400

The year the Globe was completed

1599

400

This was willed to Shakespeare's daughter, Judith

Nothin'

500
The 3 reasons why we believe Shakespeare's birthday is April 23

Baptism 3 days later | St. George's Day | It was the day he died

500

The man Judith Shakespeare married

Sir Thomas Quiney

500

This is the crime Shakespeare was allegedly accused of, causing him to leave his hometown

Poaching on Sir Thomas Lucy's land

500

This is the collective name for the patrons who paid only one penny to enter the Globe

Groundlings

500

This is the final line of the curse on Shakespeare's tomb, which reads:

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare.
Bleste be yͤ man yͭ spares thes stones,

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And curst be he yͭ moves my bones.

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