Early Life
Marriage and Family
Career
"The Play's the Thing"
"All the World's a Stage"
100
the year Shakespeare was born
What is 1564?
100
the name of Shakespeare's wife
What is Anne Hathaway?
100
the first name of Shakespeare's theater company
What is the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
100
where the "cheap" theater patrons sat
What is the yard (floor in front of stage)?
100
a phrase coined by Shakespeare
What is "laugh it off," "catch cold," etc, etc?
200
the names of WS's parents
What are John and Mary?
200
Shakespeare's age when he married
What is 18?
200
the name of Shakespeare's theater
What is the Globe?
200
expensive seats
What is the balcony?
200
a famous line from Shakespeare
What is "parting is such sweet sorrow..." etc?
300
a government job WS's father held
What is mayor?
300
the number of children William and Anne had
What is 3?
300
the year Shakespeare's famous theater was built
What is 1599?
300
they were forbidden to act on stage
What is "women"?
300
the type of English Shakespeare wrote in
What is Elizabethan?
400
Shakespeare's town
What is Stratford-on-Avon?
400
the name of Shakespeare's oldest daughter
What is Susanna?
400
the town where Shakespeare pursued his career
What is London?
400
two of the genres of plays that Shakespeare wrote
What are comedy, tragedy, history, romance?
400
number of plays attributed to Shakespeare
What is 38?
500
the second language of the educated in Shakespeare's day
What is Latin?
500
Shakespeare's son who died at age 11
Who is Hamnet?
500
two of Shakespeare's means of income
What is acting salary, fees from plays, profit shares as investor?
500
a long speech delivered by a character alone on the stage
What is soliloquy?
500
age of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
What is 13!!!?
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