Shakespeare's Life
William Shakespeare's birthplace.
What is Stratford upon Avon, England?
The time in which creative literature boomed in England.
What is the Renaissance?
The main types of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What are Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories?
Shakespeare is famous for his use of these in his literary works.
What are puns, idioms, hyperboles, and insults?
This is the definition of a sonnet.
What is a 14 line lyric poem?
This is where Shakespeare got his education.
What is Stratford Grammar School?
The year Shakespeare's theater opened for people of all statuses to visit.
What is 1599?
The name of his acting group.
What is the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
The reason Shakespeare used insults in his work.
What is to create the mood, the atmosphere, and relationships between characters?
The style that Shakespeare's sonnets and plays are written in.
What is iambic pentameter?
In this year, he moved to London away from his family to focus on his career.
What is 1592?
The reigning queen during Shakespeare's time.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The place where his acting group performed.
What is the Globe Theater?
The amount of words and phases Shakespeare was said to create.
What is about 3000?
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG?
The name of his wife and number of children he had.
What is Anne Hathaway with 3 children?
The religion that England was during Shakespeare's time.
What is Protestant?
The amount of sonnets and plays he wrote.
What is 154 sonnets and 37 plays?
The reason Shakespeare created all the new words and phrases.
What is so that he could rhyme in his poetry?
The other type of sonnet.
What is Petrarchan?
The year and age he was when he died.
What is 52 years old in 1616?
The tone that most creative literature of England had in that time.
What is Puritan and Patriotic?
By this year, Shakespeare was the most well known playwright and actor in London.
What is 1594?
The Polish philosopher that analyzed Shakespeare's works using linguistics.
Who is Wincenty Lutosławski?
The man who published Shakespeare's sonnets.
Who is Thomas Thorpe?