Personal Life
Plays
Language
Comedy
Romeo & Juliet
100
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 early Modern 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 is the Shakespearean tragedy that you will learn about in freshman English.
What is Romeo & Juliet?
200
This man was a popular actor, poet, and playwright.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
The majority of Shakespeare's plays were performed here, which burned down during a 1613 production of Henry the Eighth.
What is the Globe Theater?
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
The kind of actor that generally played Juliet during Shakespeare's time.
What is a boy?
300
Shakespeare's time and society was during a __________ (rebirth) of arts and sciences.
What is renaissance?
300
This disease closed London theaters between the years 1592 and 1594.
What is the Plague?
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
The Renaissance (15th century) in Verona, Italy.
What is the setting for Romeo & Juliet?
400
This is where Shakespeare went to live his life and focus on his work.
Where is London?
400
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How many people were in an audience at The Globe Theater?
400
A fourteen line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
400
A method that Shakespeare uses to lighten the mood during a tragedy.
What is comic relief?
400
There are thought to be 77 versions of Romeo & Juliet written since the original play. One of these takes place in the 1950's in New York City.
What is West Side Story?
500
This is who Shakespeare was married to.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
Black = Tragedy; White = Comedy; Red = History
What color flags were flown on the theater to let people know what type of play was being put on that night?
500
"Do ye bite your thumb at me?"
What is an example of a Shakespearean insult?
500
In Shakespearean comedies, Shakespeare plays on words, which is also known as this.
What is a pun?
500
"Two households, both alike in dignity.."
Who are the Montagues and the Capulets?
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