Shakespeare's Life
In which English town was Shakespeare born?
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
This tragedy features two star-crossed lovers.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
What is the name of Othello's wife?
Who is Desdamona?
What is the name of the poetic meter Shakespeare often used?
What is iambic pentameter?
What is the name of the 14 line long poems Shakespeare wrote about a young man and a dark lady, often seen as a reflection of love and time?
What are sonnets?
What year is considered Shakespeare's birth year?
What is 1564?
Name the play that features a character talking to a skull.
Hamlet.
Which character is manipulated Othello?
Who is Iago?
Shakespeare frequently used this type of unrhymed verse.
What is blank verse?
Which Shakespeare poem discusses the idea of the immortality of poetry as a means of preserving beauty?
What is Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?
Who is Anne Hathaway?
What is the name of the ghost that appears at the beginning of Hamlet?
Who is the Ghost of King Hamlet?
What object does Iago use to manipulate Othello and incite his jealousy?
What is Desdamona's handkerchief.
What term describes Shakespeare's use of two rhyming lines at the end of a poem?
What is a rhyming couplet?
What is the primary theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73?
What is the inevitability of aging and death, and how love becomes more significant as time passes?
What was the name of the theater closely associated with Shakespeare?
What is the Globe Theatre?
Which Shakespeare play is set in a magical island and features the character Prospero?
What is The Tempest?
What is the name of Shakespeare’s early English used in his plays?
What is Early Modern English?
In Sonnet 73, what natural metaphor does Shakespeare use to describe aging?
What is the autumn season, where leaves are falling and trees are bare?
How many plays is Shakespeare believed to have written?
What is 39?
Who's famous soliloquy begins with the words “To be, or not to be”?
Who is Hamlet?
What does Othello mean when he says, “Put out the light, and then put out the light”?
What is extinguishing a candle (literal) and killing Desdemona (metaphorical)?
What literary device does Shakespeare use in Othello when Iago speaks directly to the audience about his plans, such as in his soliloquies?
What is dramatic irony?
In Sonnet 73, what is the significance of the line "In me thou see’st the twilight of such day" and how does it relate to the poem's central theme?
The line symbolizes the later stages of life, comparing the speaker’s aging process to the fading of daylight at twilight. It reflects the theme of time passing, aging, and the inevitability of death, which makes the love of the speaker’s partner even more meaningful.