Shakespeare
Actor in theater
The best wat to describe Romeo at the beginning of the play is
Dramatic - Heart broken
What is a comma?
A pause in a sentence
How were actors identities kept "Secret" during the plays?
By the actors wearing mask over their faces
True or False, William Shakespeare invited the sonnet?
False
The name of Shakespeare's acting company
Lord Chamberlain's Men
How old is Juliet when Paris asks for her hand in marriage
13 years old
A word that joins separate clauses or sentences together
How many people could the Globe Theater hold?
3000 people
What is a "Volta?" and where does it occur?
A turn or change in the sonnet located around line 8
This was the eara in which Shakespeare's career took place that greatly helped his legacy
Elizabethan Age
How do Romeo and Benvolio make it into Capulets party?
Peter, Capulets servant, can not read. Romeo reads the invitation list to him. Peter does not realize they are Montagues and invites them to the party as well.
What are three things that are needed to make a complete sentence?
Subject, verb and complete thought
Why were women not allowed to be actors in the globe theater?
it was judged an unseemly profession for women. It was considered disgraceful for a woman to preform certain acts on stage
In a Iambic Pentameter, how are the syllables emphasized
The first syllable is unstressed or de-emphasized, and the second syllable is stressed or emphasized.
Where did Shakespeare get the idea for R+J?
From a real life couple that lived in the Real city of Verona Italy that audiences would have remembered
What is the reason the first fight breaks out within the books?
Sampson bites his thumb at Abram
These are things found within a sentences that, without them, add nothing to the rest of the sentence
Non Essential Clause
Why were few, if any, decorations used during the plays held in the Theater?
So that the audience would focus on the dialogue between actors and not be too focused on decorations
Name Three of Shakespeare's plays
List the two reasons why we have Shakespeare's work today?
his work was compiled by two fellow actors and friends, and David Garrick produced the Shakespeare Jubilee.
Who is the first people to have a line in R+J?
The Chorus - opening up the play in the prologue
What is Early Modern English?
EME was not very different from “Modern English,” except that it had some old holdovers. The King James translation of the bible is the most famous example of Shakespearean english
After it was rebuilt following a fire, Why did the Globe Theater stop preforming plays?
England society was soon taken over by Puritans who viewed the plays as sinful in nature compared to Christian values. Other factors were also considered like spread of diseases and others.
One of the most famous plays of Shakespeare in which a brave leader is betrayed by his best friend and killed by his fellow government officials
Julius Caesar