William Shakespeare
What is 1564-1616?
Meaning of the word "jocund."
What is "great merriment" or "overjoyed" or "overly excited"?
cast thy nighted color off.
What is "stop wearing these black clothes"?
The rhetorical appeal most associated with reason.
I will catch the conscience of the king!
Verse most often used by Shakespeare. (Must be pronounced AND spelled correctly.)
What is "iambic pentameter"?
The act of talking to one's self in a play.
What is "soliloquy"?
Rapier.
What is a "sword"?
When Gertrude says The lady doth protest too much, methinks she is referring to this play.
What is The Mousetrap?
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Who is "Prince Hamlet"?
Nickname given to Shakespeare -- the world's most famous dramatist.
Fill in the missing words for this phrase:
With _______ in funeral, and with ________ in marriage.
What is "mirth" and "dirge"?
Apparition.
What is a "ghostly figure"?
The genres Shakespeare wrote in.
What are "comedies, histories, and tragedies"
He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
Who is "Ophelia"?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was performed in The Globe Theatre during these years.
What is 1599-1601?
Fill in the missing word for this phrase:
Oh, my __________ soul!
-Prince Hamlet
Buzz, buzz.
The Greek word for "situational time."
What is "kairos"?
Said to the ghost the first time it appears: Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes again!
Who is "Marcellus"?
Name four plays by Shakespeare, not including Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
What are Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry the IV, Richard II, etc.
Recite one line from Hamlet's well-known soliloquy, other than the first line: To be or not to be, that is the question.
What is . . . ?
Oh, my offence is rank!
-Claudius
What is "Oh, my crime is so rotten it stinks"?
The art of speaking or writing effectively; persuasive.
What is "rhetoric"?
Let four captains
Bear him like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been put on,
to have proved most royally. And, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Who is "young Fortinbras"?