Early Life and Education
Married Life
Life during the Theater Closure
Plays and Locations
After the Writing stopped
100
Shakespeare grew up in this town.
What is Stratford
100
Shakespeare wasted no time getting hitched. He married at this ripe old age.
What is eighteen.
100
"A ______ on both your houses" a line from one of Shakespear's most famous plays is a grim reminder of the illness that forced the theaters to close.
What is the plague.
100
Shakespeare's were primarily performed in these places.
What are Shakespeare's acting company theaters
100
Shakespeare returned to this place after he stopped writing.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon.
200
This is the the name of the grammar school Shakespeare attended.
What is the King's New School.
200
Shakespeare's bride went by this familiar name.
What is Anne Hathaway.
200
These two title characters make up the name of one of the two Shakespeare works written during the theater closure.
Who are Venus and Adonis.
200
This is one of the most well known of all Shakespeare's plays.
What is Romeo and Juliet.
200
Shakespeare returned to Stratford in this financial state.
What is wealthy
300
Shakespeare studied this in the "petty school"
What is reading and writing.
300
This is the year that Shakespeare married his wife.
What is 1582.
300
This is the year that Shakespeare became a published poet
What is 1593.
300
Shakespeare wrote these four plays while his company was at the globe...(The tragedies not the comedies...)
What are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
300
This is the date of Shakespeare's death.
What is April 23, 1616.
400
Shakespeare studied this after moving to the "upper form"
What is Latin history, rhetoric, and learned Greek
400
The marriage between Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway was somewhat rushed due to this pressing "situation" (refer to the years students...)
What is Anne Hathaways pregnancy out of wedlock.
400
This is the name of the Shakespeare play written in 1594.
What is Lucrece.
400
These are two of the comedies written by Shakespeare during his company was at the Globe.
What Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure.
400
These five people lived with Shakespeare in his home after he returned to Stratford.
Who are his wife, his two daughters their husbands.
500
Shakespeare studied this in the "lower form"
What is Latin grammar and texts.
500
Shakespeare and Anne had three children, but sadly only two of them made it to adulthood. this is the name of the child who died.
Who is Hamnet.
500
This is the place where Shakespeare began to gain prominence as an actor.
What is London.
500
This is believed to be the year that Shakespeare wrote Henry VIII.
What is 1612.
500
It was not until seven years after Shakespeare's death in this year that his collected plays were published in a work known as the "first folio"
What is 1623.
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