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100
The ruler of England when William was born?
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
100
This is the type of play "Hamlet" is.
What is a tragedy?
100
This the age at which William got married.
What is 18?
100
This is the name for a group of actors.
What is a troupe?
100
This leader took over after Queen Elizabeth died.
Who is James I?
200
This is where William was born.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
200
All of Shakespeare's tragic heroes had this.
What is a flaw?
200
Shakespeare married this person.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
200
This is the name of the theater Shakespeare and his troupe built.
What is The Globe?
200
This serious illness killed many people throughout Shakespeare's life.
What is the bubonic plague or black death?
300
This is the main job William's father had.
What is a glove-maker?
300

This is the author of the book, Who Was William Shakespeare.

Who was Celeste Davidson Mannis.

300
This is where Shakespeare spent most of his adult life.
What is London?
300
Give one reason the Mayor of London did not like to have theaters in London.
What is big and noisy crowds, pickpockets, drinking, spread of disease?
300
These are the kind of poems Shakespeare wrote.
What are sonnets?
400
The number of children in Shakespeare's family (how many siblings including William).
What is 6?
400
This Shakespeare play has a mean, hunchbacked main character.
What is Edward III?
400
The Earl of Southampton gave William money to be able to write poems and plays. This is what we call a person who supports an artist with money.
What is a patron?
400
This part of the Globe theater allowed actors to come and go without being noticed.
What is the trapdoor?
400
What was the name of Shakespeare's home he bought in Stratford once he made money?
What is the New Place?
500
This is the language William learned in school in addition to English.
What is Latin?
500
This play has a strong, stubborn and intelligent woman who gets married as a main character.
What is "The Taming of the Shrew"?
500
This is the age William Shakespeare was when he died.
What is 52?
500
Shakespeare's plays were different from other writers of his time because they...
Were about events taking place (or that did take place) in England.
500
This is the kind of rhythm or pattern of the blank verse Shakespeare wrote.
What is iambic pentameter?
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