Shakespeare was born in this small city outside of London.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
100
This play involves royal fairies and a donkey's head.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
100
Shakespeare writes in this kind of English.
What is middle English?
100
This play, which deals with a group of lamentable actors, is a Shakespearean comedy.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
100
This play, which deals with a man going insane, is a Shakespearean Tragedy.
What is Hamlet (or Macbeth)?
200
This man was a popular actor, poet, and playwright.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
Shakespeare's plays were performed in this classic theatre.
What is the Globe?
200
Shakespeare uses this type of meter in most of his plays.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
This element of Shakespearean Comedy happens three times in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is marriage?
200
This element of tragedy usually happens at the end of the play, when the bad choices of characters have reached a breaking point.
What is individual torment, waste, and death?
300
Shakespeare's time and society was during a __________ of arts and sciences.
What is renaissance?
300
As an actor, Shakespeare performed with a group of actors named this.
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men?
300
What is the meter which has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?
What is iambic pentameter?
300
This element of Comedy happens when Puck puts the potion on Lysanders eyes because he believes him to be the man Oberon spoke of.
What is mistaken identities?
300
This element of Shakespearean Tragedy usually differs from our idea of tragedy, which focuses usually on group suffering.
What is "tragedy is individual and concentrates on the suffering of a single, remarkable hero?"
400
This is where Shakespeare went to live his life and focus on his work.
Where is London?
400
While writing and acting, Shakespeare made friends with this class of people in London.
What are aristocrats?
400
This is the Shakespearean way to say you.
What is thou?
400
An example of this Shakespearean element is when the story of Oberon and Titania happens while the larger story of Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius is happening.
What is multiple, intertwined plots?
400
This is the Shakespearean Tragedy that you will learn about in Freshman English.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
500
This is who Shakespeare was married to.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
Shakespeare was this much of an owner of the Globe.
What is 1/5 owner?
500
Shakespeare created many of these, which shows how he contributed to modern day language.
What are words?
500
In Shakespearean comedies, Shakespeare plays on words, which is also known as this.
What is a Pun?
500
This play is one Shakespearean Tragedy that you probably won't encounter in High School. It is one of Shakespeare's more violent plays.