Fortune's Fools
This is the character who never appears on stage.
Who is Rosaline?
This is when Lady Capulet tries to sell her daughter on the idea of Paris.
What is Act I, Scene iii?
This is the character who commands the beautiful sun to rise and kill the envious moon.
Who is Romeo?
These are used by dramatists and directors to tell a story and create an interpretation on stage.
What are theatrical elements?
This is the playhouse in which Shakespeare was part owner, the original of which burned down in 1613.
What is the Globe?
Who is the Apothecary?
This is when Mercutio explains the threat that is Tybalt.
This character asserts that dreams are the "children of an idle brain."
Who is Mercutio?
The way a performer on stage interprets plot, character, and conflict through movement, gestures, and facial expressions.
What is Visual Delivery?
Because of this document, it is believed that Shakespeare's birthday is April 23, 1564.
What is a baptismal certificate?
This is the character who fails to bring news of Juliet's "death" to Mantua.
Who is Friar John?
This is when the love birds disagree about birds.
What is Act 3, Scene iv?
This is the character who fainted at the sight of a wound on a "manly chest."
Who is the Nurse?
A character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character.
What is a foil?
Shakespeare married this woman, who shares a name with a modern American actress, when he was 18.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
This character is both illiterate and a bad singer.
Who is Peter?
This is the when Juliet has a vision of Tybalt's ghost.
What is Act IV, Scene iii?
This character proclaims that there has never been a sadder story then that of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is the Prince?
A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
What is an iamb?
Shakespeare wrote his 154 sonnets in part out of economic necessity because of this.
What is the plague?
This is the only character to die without being poisoned or stabbed.
Who is Lady Montague?
What is Act IV, Scene V?
This character advises Tybalt to flee the scene of the crime.
Who is Petruchio?
A long speech delivered by an actor alone on the stage, usually representing his or her internal thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
This was Shakespeare's son, who died at the age of 11.
Who is Hamnet?