What we know about William Shakespeare comes from _______ and ________ that he left behind and small amounts of information that others wrote about him.
What is poems and plays?
100
William Shakespeare had how many children?
What is three?
100
The first permanent theatre in England was built in what year?
What is 1576?
100
each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
What is iambic meter?
100
In Romeo and Juliet what is the job of the chorus?
The chorus is like the narrator, it introduces what will happen in the following act.
200
William Shakespeare was the third of how many children?
What is eight?
200
William Shakespeare left his family in Stratford to move where?
What is London?
200
In 1599, Burbage's theater was torn down and its timbers were used by Shakespeare to build what theater?
What is The Globe Theatre?
200
Five units of iambic meter are required to make up ________ ________.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
Where does Romeo and Juliet take place?
What is Verona, Italy?
300
Where was William Shakespeare born?
What is Stratford, England?
300
What acting company was William Shakespeare a member of?
What is the King's Men?
300
What are two characteristics of The Globe Theatre?
*round or polygonal shaped
*three stories high
*large platform stage
*trapdoors
*the stage was open to the sky
300
Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called _________ ________.
What is blank verse?
300
What are the names of the two families that are feuding?
What is Capulet and Montague?
400
At the age of eighteen William Shakespeare married __________ __________.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
400
William Shakespeare wrote how many plays?
What is thirty-seven?
400
What was more important in a Shakespearian play the language or the setting?
What is the language?
400
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme are known as ____________?
What are couplets?
400
Juliet's nurse loves her like she is her daughter. The nurse is a motherly figure to Juliet but also provides _______ ___________ to the play.
What is comic relief?
500
William Shakespeare's wife was how many yeas older than him?
What is eight years older?
500
William Shakespeare was born and died on what day fifty-two years apart?
What is April 23?
500
Who played female roles during Shakespearian times?
What are young males?
500
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That shall say good night till it be morrow."
This is an example of a _______________.
What is couplet?
500
Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he hopes their marriage will _________ _______ ________.