LIFE
DRAMA
Characters
What is in a word?
Directions
100
37
What is the number of plays Shakespeare produced?
100
groundlings
Who are people who stood and watched plays from the ground?
100
Romeo
Who is the son of Lord Montegue?
100
high social rank
What is "dignity" ?
100
tragedy
What is a play that shows the downfall or death of a character?
200
The Globe
What is the famous Shakespeare theater?
200
hazelnuts
What was Elizabethan popcorn?
200
Mercutio
Who is Romeo's friend who is killed?
200
hence
What is "away from here" ?
200
soliloquy
What is a speech in which a character who is usually alone on stage reveals private thoughts that the audience overhears.
300
18
What is the age Shakespeare married?
300
men and boys
Who could act in Shakespeare's days
300
Paris
Who does Juliet's father want her to marry?
300
indeed
What is "marry"
300
a long uninterrupted speech deliverd by a character to other characters
What is monologue?
400
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
What was a successful London theater company?
400
two hours
What is the typical length of a Shakepeare play?
400
nurse
What is Juliet's nurse's name?
400
haply
What is "perhaps" ?
400
a brief remark in which the character expresses private thoughts to the audience
What is aside
500
1564-1616
What is Shakespeare's birth and death years?
500
sixteenth century
What is the time period Shakespeare wrote his plays?
500
chorus
What is a group of characters who comment on the action?
500
soon
What is "anon" ?
500
dialogue
What is the speech between the characters
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