Sweet Newborn Babe
Stratford-upon-Avon
What is Shakespeare's birthplace?
This took place from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. five and half days per week for half the year.
What is Summer School?
His engagement to this 26-year-old Puritan was announced the day after his engagement to Anne Whateley.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
In 1599, this open-air theatre opened on the south bank of the Thames River.
What is the Globe?
Much of Shakespeare's work was written using this "unstressed-stressed" style of verse.
What is iambic pentameter?
April 23, 1564
What is Shakespeare's birthday?
Students were required to speak this language at school exclusively.
What is Latin?
The death of his son Hamnet at age 11 likely inspired Shakespeare to pen this famous play.
What is Hamlet?
Around 1599, Shakespeare began writing two of his most famous plays: Hamlet, and this.
This castle overlooks the town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
What is Warwick Castle?
Who are Mary Arden and John Shakespeare?
Due to his father's financial issues, Shakespeare left school at this age.
What is 14?
Shakespeare ran away to London to seek his fortune, and ended up in this theatre troupe run by James Burbage.
What is the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these fourteen-line poems.
What are sonnets?
This Cheapside inn was a regular haunt of Shakespeare and his cronies.
What is the Mermaid Tavern?
English children ages 4-5 would go here to learn to read and write English.
What is petty school?
At the end of each term, these were performed by students.
What are Latin/Greek dramas?
At Burbage's Theatre, Shakespeare worked his way up as a hostler, servitor, prompter's attendant, actor, script furbisher, playwright, and this.
What is a housekeeper?
In the Elizabethan Era, theatres had maintain a constant repertoire to compete with various other forms of entertainment, including the Queen's favorite spectacle.
What is bear-baiting?
The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613 during a performance of this play.
What is Henry VIII?
Shakespeare went to grammar school with these only.
Who are boys?
If he had not been forced to leave school, Arts, Medicine, Philosophy, History, Theology, Poetry, and Law are a few of the courses that Shakespeare could have taken here.
What is (Cambridge) University?
In the winter of 1597 while landlord Richard Alleyn was away on holiday, Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men stole this item and ferried it across the Thames River.
What is the Theatre?
Who are Plautus and Seneca?
Upon his death, Shakespeare willed this item to Anne Hathaway, his wife of over 30 years.
What is his second-best bed?