Renaissance
The centuries the European Renaissance took place
What are 15th-16th Century?
This era was inspired by the reign of this famous monarch.
Who is Queen Eliabeth I?
This day is widely considered to be Shakespeare's birthday. This is where he was born.
What is April 23, 1564? What is Stratford-upon-Avon, England?
This is the number of plays he wrote in total.
what is 37?
A tale of two star-crossed lovers whose families’ hate each other, but they fall in love anyway.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
The European Renaissance begin here.This is the reason it did.
What is Italy? What is trade and money?
Even though Authorities did not like theatre companies at this time, they overcame it because of this fact.
What is the Queen's love of music and theatre?
This is the area in theatre that Shakespeare got his start.
What is acting?
This is number the number of acts in a typical Shakespeare play.
What is 5?
This quote came from this play. “Double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
What is Macbeth?
The Renaissance was inspired by these 2 cultures.
What are Greek and Roman?
Explain the seating arrangement in the Globe.
What is Determined by class (Upper in balcony, Lower on ground)?
This is the reason that April 23 was decided as his birthdate.
What is the record of his baptism?
These are the 3 types of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What are comedy, tragedy, and history?
A tale of four young Athenian lovers who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This person invented the first printer AND this invention was so significant in this way (what did it do for the Renaissance).
Who is Johann Gutenberg? What is spreading information?
This is the name of the most notable Elizabethan theatre structure. This year it opened.
What is the Globe? When is 1599?
This is the title of his first collected works, and the year it came out.
What is The First Folio, and 1623?
This sonnet is considered his most well known.
WHat is Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day?"
A tale of a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become the king of Scotland.
What is Macbeth?
The English Renaissance was different than the Italian Renaissance in this way.
What is focusing on music and literature than visual art?
These are 3 major ways that theatre changed during this time period.
What are...
Actors traveled in companies and would perform in various locations
The authorities weren’t happy about this and considered them vagabonds
The City of London authorities may have been hostile towards the theatre but was quickly overmatched due to the Queen’s love for the theatre
Had both public (for everyone) and private (for the rich/royalty) performances
Theatres sprang up everywhere
Unified expression amongst the social classes- the court watched the same plays as the commoners
Religious authorities still had issues with the theatre and believed it was pagan
One of the most notable theatres was the Globe Theatre
What are plays, sonnets, and poems?
These are 3 differences between his comedies and tragedies.
What are...confusion/disguise/deception, always ends with a wedding (comedies) and lying/cheating/adultery/murder, usually ends in disaster and death with powerful men or women being destroyed by their own weaknesses, always ended with the death of the title character (tragedies)?
A tale surrounding the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong and obdurate young woman.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?