Early Life
The city William grew up.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
Shakespeare's wife.
What is Anne Hathaway?
Shakespeare's most popular play.
True or false? Both Shakespeare's parents and children/wife were illiterate.
What is True?
Translate the following words into modern English within 1 minuted: thou, thee, & shall/shalt.
What is you (subject), you (object), and will?
The number of siblings William grew up with.
What is 7 siblings?
The average age of marriage during their time.
What is 26 years old?
The number of sonnets Shakespeare wrote?
What is 154 sonnets?
The years between 1585 and 1592.
What are the lost years?
Translate the following sentence within 60 seconds: ""Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other"
What is: Set honor in one eye and death in the other.
His father's jobs.
What is a glove maker, merchant, and politician?
Shakespeare was ___ years old when he married.
What is 18?
The number of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What is 37 or 38 plays?
The importance of this date and both years: April 23, 1564 and April 23, 1616
What is Shakespeare's birthday and death day?
"Break the ice"
"Devil incarnate"
"A laughing stock"
"In a pickle"
What are phrases coined by Shakespeare?
His mother's name
Mary
He was the inspiration for Hamlet.
What is Shakespeare's son, Hamnet?
Shakespeare's age when he wrote his first play.
What is 26 years old?
Shakespeare's nickname.
What is "The Bard"?
Which of these words did Shakespeare invent and are still use today? Whither, Gnarled, Teems
What is Gnarled?
The age Shakespeare dropped out of school
14
The names of Anne and William's children.
What is Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet?
The first play to be performed in the Globe theater.
What is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
The number of plays Shakespeare published on his own.
What is none?
What is being said in the following quotation?
"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
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