Intro to Shakespeare
This ruler reigned over England from 1558-1603.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The name of Shakespeare's theatre.
What is The Globe?
This is the name of the meter that Shakespeare used most often in his works.
What is iambic pentameter?
These are some of Shakespeare's comedic techniques.
What is: banter, puns, word play, practical jokes, dramatic irony, slapstick?
This type of writing is written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
What is prose?
The name of Shakespeare's wife.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
This is the reason why theatres were shut down during the Elizabethan era.
What is the Plague/Black Death?
These are the three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote.
What are comedies, tragedies, and histories?
This is the minimum number of plot lines in most Shakespearean comedies.
What is 2?
This is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
The seven years after the birth of Shakespeare's children are known as this.
What are the Lost Years?
This is the title of those who could watch from the ground level for only a penny.
What are Groundlings?
This is the name of the first edition of Shakespeare's collected works.
What is The First Folio?
These are the common elements of Shakespeare's comedies.
What is: marriage, happy endings, celebrations of life, music, revelry, many plots, relationships, mistaken identity, disguises, masks, confusion, schemes, class conflict, gender roles?
This is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
This is the highest level of education that Shakespeare completed.
What is grammar school?
This happened to The Globe in 1613.
What is it burned due to canon fire?
These are some of the sources of inspiration for Shakespeare's works.
What is: Christian Morality Plays, Commedia dell'arte, Commedia Erudita, Folktales, others' plays, poetry, writing, OR History?
This is the setting of many of Shakespeare's comedies, chosen to suspend disbelief loosen civil society rules.
What is NOT England?
This is a verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
This is the number of words that Shakespeare added to the English language.
What is 1700?
This is the number of audience members on any given night.
What is three-thousand?
This is the approximate number of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What is 39?
What are school-aged boys?
This is an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?