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Shakespeare
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Shakespeare was born in this year
What is 1564?
100
Shakespeare lived during this time of artistic "rebirth"
What is the English Renaissance?
100
What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?
What is The Globe?
100
All Shakespearean plays contain this many acts
What is 5?
100
If the audience is looking to their right, the actors would be performing on stage _____.
What is left?
200
Shakespeare was born and died on the 23rd day of this month
What is April?
200
She was the Queen during Shakespeare's lifetime
What is Elizabeth I?
200
Shakespeare wrote three kinds of plays -- histories, comedies, and these
What is tragedies?
200
Acts are subdivided into these smaller units
What is scenes?
200
In this type of irony, the audience knows something that the characters do not (O, Romeo, Romeo, don't drink the apothecary's poison!)
What is dramatic irony?
300
Within five (and without going over), Shakespeare wrote this many plays
What is 35?
300
During Shakespeare's lifetime, this disease killed roughly 1/3 of the population of Europe
What is The Plague, the Bubonic Plague, or the Black Death?
300
All the actors during Shakespeare's era were ___.
What is men/males?
300
All the furnishings or other objects used onstage are called this
What is props?
300
Term for the area of the stage closest to the audience
What is down stage?
400
She was Shakespeare's wife
What is Anne Hathaway?
400
This English king is famous for beheading several wives
What is Henry VIII?
400
The peasants could watch a Shakespearean play from this area directly in front of the stage
What is the pit?
400
This type of play often ends in catastrophe; in "Hamlet," for example, there are four dead bodies onstage at the end
What is a tragedy?
400
This characteristic often leads to the hero's downfall
What is tragic flaw?
500
Shakespeare lived in this town
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
500
Who was older -- Shakespeare or his wife?
What is his wife (by eight years)?
500
Shakespeare's acting company was called this
What is the King's Men or Lord Chamberlain's Men?
500
Internal thoughts spoken aloud by a single actor
What is a soliloquy?
500
A character whose qualities contrast with those of another character, thus accentuating the traits of both
What is a foil?