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Queen Elizabeth I
William Shakespeare Bio
Elizabethan theater/The Globe
100
to surrender
What is abjure
100
a promise
What is a vow
100
Elizabeth's father
Who is Henry VIII?
100
Town where Shakespeare was born and raised
What is Stratford-Upon-Avon?
100
viewers who watched the show standing, from the pit
Who are "groundlings"?
200
to cast a spell upon
What is bewitch
200
a wedding or marriage
What is a nuptial?
200
Elizabeth had her executed
Who is Mary Queen of Scots?
200
This disease was killing many people during the time in which Shakespeare lived
What is the Plague?
200
Place where actors hid before they rose onto stage through a trap door
What is hell?
300
celebrating
What is reveling
300
sorrowful
What is lamentable
300
Edmund spencer wrote this poem in honor of Queen Elizabeth
What is "The Faerie Queene"?
300
Shakespeare's wife's name
Who is Anne Hathaway?
300
Two ways The Globe theater was destroyed
What are "fire" and "torn down by Parliament"?
400
anger
What is vexation
400
to beg
What is to beseech?
400
Elizabeth's half-sister who kept her under arrest for many years
Who is Mary Tudor?
400
Shakespeare's son who died at age eleven
Who is Hamnet?
400
These were painted on the ceiling of the stage (heavens)
What are constellations/zodiac signs?
500
to trick
What is beguile
500
ceromonies
What are solemnities?
500
He succeeded Elizabeth
Who is James I (formally James VI of Scotland)?
500
Shakespeare's "first taste of theater"
What is "watching travelling players"?
500
Three types of plays that Shakepeare wrote
What are comedies, tragedies, and histories