Early Life
Later Life
Elizabethan Life
Iambic Pentameter
Syntax
100

The country Shakespeare was born in

What is England?
100

Shakespeare's wife's name

What is Anne Hathaway?

100

The significance of the Elizabethan Period

What is the English renaissance?

100

What is the stressed syllables of this line?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
100

The modern day syntax

What is Subject-Verb-Object?

200
The city Shakespeare was born in

What is Stratford-upon-Avon?

200
Shakespeare's adult house's name

What is The New Place?

200

The name for people who watched plays from the ground.

What is a groundling?

200

One way you can more easily remember the pattern of iambic pentameter

What is pirate's leg?

What is heartbeat?

200

One syntax Shakespeare might have used

What is O-S-V or S-O-V?
300

Shakespeare's father's occupation

What is a glovemaker?

300

Shakespeare's acting group


What is Lord Chamberlain's Men?

300

The legal religion in the Elizabethan period

What is Protestantism?

300
One reason Shakespeare used iambic pentameter

What is easier to memorize?

What is more natural dialogue?

What is to make scenes more dramatic?

What is to sound like a heartbeat?

300

Please put this in modern syntax:

the dog the ball ate

The dog ate the ball

400
Shakespeare's mother and father's name

What is John and Mary Shakespeare?

400

The Theatre Shakespeare helped found

What is The Globe Theatre?

400

The difference in education between boys and girls

What is girls didn't go to school (or were trained in housekeeping)? 

400

The number of syllables in iambic pentameter

What is 10?

400

Please put this in modern syntax:

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

We lay our scene in fair Verona.

500

Year Shakespeare was born

What is 1564?

500

The year and place Shakespeare died

What is 1616 and in Stratford-upon-Avon?

500
The people who played women in Shakespeare's plays
Young men
500

The pattern in iambic pentameter

What is unstressed syllable - stressed syllable?

500

Put this into modern syntax: 

"The prisoners, Which he in this adventure hath surprised, To his own use he keeps, and sends me word, I shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife."

He keeps the prisoners he hath surprised in this adventure, and sends me word I shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife."