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William Shakespeare: The Myth, The Man, The Legend
Hamlet: They Said What???
Elizabethan London
Who's Who in Hamlet?
The Globe Theater
100
The location of William Shakespeare's birth.
What is Stratford-on-Avon?
100
Finish the quote by Hamlet "To be or not to be that is the ________?"
What is question?
100
London theater's main competition which involved watching large tied animals being tormented by smaller hunting dogs.
What is bear baiting?
100
Hamlet's two friends from university /failed assassins.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
100
If the groundlings didn't like an actor, what did throw at them?
What is food?
200
The occupation of William Shakespeare's father.
What is a glovemaker?
200
Finish the quote by Polonious, giving advice to his son : "To thine own self be _____."
What is true?
200
How did London merchants adverstise their wares since most Elizabethans were illiterate?
What are with pictures?
200
Hamlet's girlfriend.
Who is Ophelia?
200
This outbreak closed the theater in 1608 causing William Shakespeare to write many popular sonnets and poems.
What is the plague?
300
The only thing William Shakespeare left his wife Anne in his will.
What is his second best bed?
300
Marcellus the guard as Hamlet walks toward the ghost states "Something is ______ in the state of Denmark."
What is rotten?
300
They were the two religions that had been fighting for power in England.
What are Catholics and Protestants/ Lutherans?
300
Hamlet's uncle/step-father.
Who is Claudius?
300
This religious group pushed to have the theaters closed and eventually tore down the second Globe in 1644 to build tenement housing on the site.
Who were the Puritans?
400
The epithet on William Shakespeare's grave states that he would put a curse on anyone who tries to do what?
What is move his bones?
400
The King sends a request for Hamlet's death "The present death of Hamlet. Do it, _________."
Who is England?
400
The main river that flows through London.
What is the Thames?
400
Hamlet's mother.
Who is Gertrude?
400
The cost of admission to the pit, the cheapest spot, in the theater. (In pennies)
What is one penny?
500
The number of plays written by William Shakespeare.
What is thirty-seven plays?
500
After the fencing match, Laertes speaks "Hamlet, thou are slain, as am I; no ________ in the world can do thee good."
What is medicine?
500
This item was displayed so that Londoners would know that a play would be performed that day at the theater.
What is a flag?
500
He speaks with Hamlet outside the castle and wants revenge.
Who is the ghost/ Hamlet's father?
500
This caused the fire which burned down the first Globe theater in 1613 during a production of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
What is a cannon?