Shakespeare's Life
Shakespeare's estimated birthday
When is April 23 (1564)?
This is Shakespeare's death day.
When is April 23 (1616)?
The number of plays he (supposedly) wrote.
What is 37?
This is the name of Shakespeare's theater company.
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men?
Later known as The King's Men.
This was the approximate population of London in 1600.
What is 200,000?
This is where Shakespeare was born
What (where) is Stratford-Upon-Avon?
This was the career of Shakespeare's father, John.
What is a glove maker?
When Shakespeare wrote in verse, he used this style.
What is iambic pentameter?
This is the name of the theater that Shakespeare was part owner of.
What is the Globe?
This illness killed many people during Shakespeare's lifetime.
What is the bubonic plague or black death?
This is the famous lady Shakespeare married.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
Shakespeare's career spanned the reigns of these two monarchs.
Who are Queen Elizabeth I and King James I?
This type of play is defined as order becoming chaos.
What is tragedy?
This is where most theaters were located in London.
What is south of the Thames/outside of the city.
This is why theaters closed for extended periods of time.
What is the immorality of theater angered God and brought on the plague?
This detail made Shakespeare's marriage a bit unusual for his time.
What is the age difference between William and his wife?
This term refers to Shakespeare's first published collection of plays.
What is a first folio?
This type of play is defined as moving from chaos to order.
What is comedy?
This is why the theater district was known as "the Liberties."
Theater was viewed as immoral; often censored for political reasons.
This was how the plague spread.
What are fleas carried the virus from rats to people?
This is Shakespeare's son, who tragically died.
Who is Hamnet?
This was the year we first find evidence of Shakespeare being in London.
What is 1592?
This type of play focuses on justifying the Tudor reign.
What is history?
This is the major difference in casting Shakespeare's plays in his lifetime and now.
What is all roles were played by men?
On average, how many people would attend a performance of a play at the Globe?
What is 2,000-3,000 people?
Shakespeare received this level of education.
What is grammar school?
This is one theory of how Shakespeare spent the "lost years" of 1582-1592.
What is performing with a touring acting company or working as a tutor?
This play is acknowledged as Shakespeare's first.
What is Titus Andronicus?
This is the time all plays were performed at Shakespeare's theater.
What is 2:00 pm?
In addition to reading and writing English, Shakespeare learned these languages.
What are Latin and Greek?
it is believed Shakespeare played the role of the king's ghost in this, his most famous play.
What is Hamlet
Known as "the Scottish play," saying the name of this tragedy is avoided in theaters.
What is Macbeth?
These rowdy audience members paid a penny to stand in the pit and watch a play.
Who are the groundlings?
This event caused the London theaters to be closed from 1642-1660.
What was the English Civil War?