Shakespeare's Life and Career
Actor Writer and Business
Retirement, Death and Reputation
Reading a Shakespeare Play
Styles of language
100
April 23
What is Shakespeare birthday?
100
1592
In what year was shakespeare well known as a playwright?
100
2
Shakespeare produce an average of BLANK plays per year
100
Comedies,tradegies and histories
What three groups are Shakespeare plays divided in?
100
Prose, rhyming couplets,songs and blank verses
What four styles of language do Shakespeare use in his plays?
200
The poet Ovid,Platus and Plutarch
What works of classical authors did Shakespeare study?
200
The King's Men
What was the name of the company Shakespeare joined after it was renamed?
200
It remains Unknown
What was the exact cause of his death?
200
5
how many acts are shakespeare plays divided into?
200
when less noble characters are speaking
What is prose?
300
the principals of argument or persuasion
What does rhetoric mean?
300
38
How many plays did he write?
300
"Read Him"
What is the only way people can know Shakespeare?
300
underlying ideas that bring stories together and unify the play
What is theme?
300
lines rhyming in pairs that's used to end a scene
What is rhyming couplets?
400
Anne Hathaway
Who did Shakespeare marry?
400
Sonnets and poems
Shakespeare also wrote what besides plays?
400
1610
What year did he go into semi-retirement?
400
It's when the character is alone on stage, speaking directly towards the audience, sharing his thoughts and feelings
What is a soliloquy?
400
a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is an iamb?
500
3
How many children did he have?
500
writing plays
Where was Shakespeare making money from?
500
1616
What year did Shakespeare die?
500
struggles and death
What do tragedies focus on?
500
five in greek
What does penta mean?
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