Time Period
The queen that ruled England during Shakespeare's life
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The month and year Shakespeare was born
When is April of 1564?
The number of plays and sonnets Shakespeare wrote
What are 37 plays and 154 sonnets?
Define a hyperbole
What is an exaggerated statement
The rhyme scheme for a sonnet
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG
The name of the time period that saw an explosion of literary work
What is The Renaissance?
The city Shakespeare was born in
Where is Stratford-on-Avon?
The four categories most of Shakespeare's plays fell into
What are comedies, romances, tragedies, and histories?
Define an idiom
What is an expression that means something different from what its words seem to say?
The number of lines a sonnet must have
What is 14 lines?
The theater that was built for Shakespeare's acting troupe
What is The Globee Theater?
The name of Shakespeare's wife
Who is Anne Hathaway?
The type of plays Shakespeare started writing in 1599
What are tragedies?
When idioms are used too much they are referred to as this
What is a cliche?
How the lines are divided in a sonnet
What are 3 quatrains and a couplet?
The parents of Queen Elizabeth I
Who are King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn?
The two jobs that Shakespeare's father had
What is a craftsman/glove maker and a merchant?
The year the Globe Theater opened and the year it burned down
Opened in 1599 and burned down in 1613
Shakespeare coined about ______ idioms
What is over 2,000?
The most well-known sonneter other than Shakespeare
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
The two acts that turned England into a Protestant country
What is the Act of Uniformity and the Act of Supremacy?
The name of Shakespeare's acting troupe
Who are The Lord Chamberlain's Men?
Name one of the first plays that were performed at the Globe Theater
Acceptable answers include: Julius Ceaser, As You Like It, Hamlet, Measure For Measure, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra
The study of word origins
What is etymology?
The man credited with writing the first sonnet
Who is Giacomo da Lentini?