The Play
The actor whose head gets turned into a donkey's head.
Who is Nick Bottom?
By what famous nickname is William Shakespeare often known?
Who is the Bard?
Oberon and Titania are the King and Queen of these magical beings in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What are fairies?
These standing-room-only theatergoers paid the cheapest price to watch Shakespeare's shows from the dirt floor.
Who are the groundlings?
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37 plays
Nick Bottom's profession outside of acting.
What is a weaver?
Shakespeare's birth place and resting place?
What is Stratford-upon-Avon
Oberon's mischievous right-hand fairy, also known as Robin Goodfellow, proudly boasts he can put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes.
Who is puck?
These were the only people permitted to act on stage in Elizabethan England, meaning female roles were played by them as well.
Who are boys or young men?
When did he write his first play
1590 (When he was 26)
The name of the play-within-a-play performed for the Duke's wedding.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe
According to legend, William Shakespeare was born on this exact date in 1564, and died on this exact same date in 1616.
What is April 23?
A magical forest in Athens
Flags were raised above the Globe Theatre to announce the genre of the play: white for comedy, black for tragedy, and this color for history.
What is red?
The name of his first play was...
Henry IV, Part One
Who plays Thisbe?
William Shakespeare is credited with inventing roughly this many words in the English language
What is 1,700?
Moth, Cobweb, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom
What are the fairies names
This group of religious reformists strongly opposed the theater and successfully shut down all of London's playhouses in 1642.
Who are the Puritans?
What were the different types of plays he wrote?
Comedies, Tragedies, Histories
The moon in the Play?
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The humorous but cautionary message carved into Shakespeare's tombstone to deter grave robbers.
What is a curse?
What is the "play within the play" in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Pyramus and Thisbe
This close contemporary of Shakespeare—who wrote Volpone and The Alchemist—was also the first to compile a collection of his own plays, referring to Shakespeare as "not of an age, but for all time."
Who is Ben Jonson?
What was the name of the Play that Shakespeare lost?
Cardenio