Childhood
Family
Playwright
Theater Life
Miscellaneous
100

Town of his birth

Stratford-Upon-Avon

100

Name of his wife

Anne Hathaway

100

Place where he lived when writing most of his plays

London

100

Name of theater company he was part of

Lord Chamberlain's Men

100

His father's two jobs

Glovemaker and bailiff (mayor)

200

Disease that killed two of his siblings

Plague

200

Name of first child

Susanna

200
Number of plays he wrote

Approximately forty

200

Name of theater in London that he was part-owner of

Globe Theatre

200

Age when he married

Eighteen

300

Three subjects he studied in grammar school

Latin, Greek, mythology, Roman comedy, ancient history, rhetoric, grammar

300

Names of twins

Hamnet and Judith

300

Three types of plays he wrote

Comedy, history, tragedy

300

Number of plays written and performed in London between 1560 and 1640

3000

300

Distance of London from Stratford-Upon-Avon

100 miles

400

Age that he left school

Fifteen
400

Name of child that died

Hamnet

400

Amount a playwright was paid for a play

Five pounds

400

Name of two English monarchs ruling during Shakespeare's time writing in London

Queen Elizabeth 1 and King James

400

Year of his death

1616

500
Year of his birth

1564

500

He left his wife this item in his will

"Second best bed"

500
Name one other playwright during Shakespeare's time

Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe

500

The distinction the King issued to Shakespeare and his fellow actors

Royal license

500

Number of sonnets he wrote

154