Elizabethan History
The two monarchs of England during Shakespeare's lifetime
What are Queen Elizabeth I and King James I?
What is Anne Hathaway?
The way that comedy plays end
What is a happy ending, usually a wedding?
The main character of a Shakespearean tragedy
What is the tragic hero?
Name of Shakespeare's most well-known poem type
What is a sonnet?
The woman who is the primary historian of Elizabethan England
What is Ruth Goodman?
The names of Shakespeare's three children
What are Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet?
The wisest character in a comedy
The name for the overwhelming death in a Shakespearean tragedy play
What is tragic waste?
The rhyming scheme of Shakespeare's poetry
What is ababcdcdefefgg?
The location of the first theater in London
What is the Liberties?
The town Shakespeare grew up in
What is Stratford-on-Avon?
The type of conflict in a comedy
What is a conflict of love, usually a misunderstanding or trick?
The release of the audience's emotion intended at the end of a tragedy play when justice is not satisfied
What is catharsis?
What is iambic pentameter?
The line of kings descending from Edward III
What are Plantagenet kings?
The word for the first mass publication of Shakespeare's plays, put together by two of his friends after his death
What is the First Folio?
The two possible settings of a Shakespearean comedy play
What is an exotic or pastoral setting?
The Elizabethan word for a character's "fatal flaw"
What is hamartia?
The two types of stanzas in Shakespeare's typical poem type
What are quatrains and couplets?
Two of the four humors
The titles of four of Shakespeare's history plays
What are Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, Richard III?
What are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Veronia, Twelfth Night, All's Well that Ends Well, The Tempest, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice
The titles of four of Shakespeare's tragedy plays
What are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus?
The one Shakespearean poem not written in his typical meter
What is Sonnet 145?