The period of time when nothing from Shakespeare's life is recorded or known.
What are the lost years?
100
This playwright is representative of the many artistic achievements accomplishes during Queen Elizabeth's I's reign.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
Arranged marriage was one of these social customs.
What is a social custom that negated free will in nuptials in Elizabethan times?
100
His popularity was predominantly after his death.
When did Shakespeare gain most of his popularity--before or after he died?
100
Sight/insight become is a major one of these that leads to theme--people who can see but are emotionally blinded and people who can't see and finally recognize the truth.
What is a major motif that leads to theme in the play?
200
1585 is this important year.
When did Shakespeare begin his theater career?
200
This arrived on rats who stowed away on trading ships in October of 1347 and would eventually kill twenty million people.
What is the black plague (black death)?
200
Elizabethan women, considered inferior to men and dependent on them, fit this in Shakespeare's era.
What is the role (social view) of women in the Elizabethan era?
200
"Good riddance" from Troilus and Cressida.
What is a phrase popularized by Shakespeare?
200
Cordelia is the first person to introduce this word as a major motif in the play, evidenced by her answer to Lear when he asks her what more she can say to better her sisters' flattery of him during the "love" contest.
What is a motif that Cordelia introduces in the play when she gives Lear her speech during the "love" contest in Act I.
300
Stratford and London are these two locations.
What are the two locations around which Shakespeare's life revolved?
300
3-5 days in council a week.
What is/are the number of days the Privy Council met during the week as a governing body?
300
What are the right hand of an executed prisoner, iron, silver, fire salt, silver, running water, being breathed on by a cow, and spitting into a fire considered as?
What substances or actions were considered lucky in the Elizabethan era?
300
Histories were the most popular out of these two types of plays.
What is the most popular type of play--histories or
tragedies--of Shakespeare's plays?
300
They both have deceptive children who may try to betray them and one is the godfather of the other's children.
What are two ways Glouchester's and Lear's stories parallel each other?
400
This number, after subtracting those susceptible to the infant mortality rate, is four.
What is the number of surviving siblings Shakespeare had growing up in his family?
400
Shakespeare reference this over 100 times in his plays, demonstrating the belief that this controlled fate.
What is astrology?
400
Shakespeare reference this belief over 100 times in his plays by mentioning such characters as Juno and others.
What is astrology?
400
"Your mom" jokes are a form of this type of humor that he popularized.
What is a type of crude humor that Shakespeare popularized?
400
Oswald.
What is the name of Goneril's servant who insults King Lear at her palace during the king's stay there?
500
1582.
What is the year Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway?
500
This was done to ensure that the Queen's laws were obeyed.
What is the appointment of royal representatives in every British county?
500
Farmers, tradesmen, and a few merchants fit into this area.
Of what groups of people did the yeoman social class consist?
500
Christopher Marlowe of Thomas Kyd were two of these.
What is the name of another playwright during Shakespeare's time?
500
The words mean that have an ungrateful off spring causes more pain than a snake bite.
What do the words, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is/
to have a thankless child" (1.4.243-44) mean?