The name of the "rebirth" period of the arts and sciences.
What is the Renaissance period.
100
When someone speaks off the side to another character or to the audience while the rest of the characters on stage are unaware of what was said.
What is an aside?
100
Sorrow and Borrow are examples of this poetry term.
What is an exact rhyme?
100
The name of the first playhouse in London was called this.
What is the Theater?
100
The metrical pattern Shakespeare uses in his sonnets and plays
What is Iambic Pentameter
200
The only body of water in London that was also too polluted to enjoy if you were a swimmer
What is the Thames River?
200
A four line stanza in a poem is known as this.
What is a quatrain?
200
When Samson asks Gregory if the law was on his side if he admitted to biting his thumb at the Montague servants, although their enemies do not hear them talking is an example of this term.
What is an aside?
200
All female roles were played by these types of males.
What are those boys whose voices had not dropped yet.
200
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG
300
Three forms of entertainment competing with going to see a play during this time in London
Bear baiting
Races
Gambling
Prostitution
300
A play on words is known as this term.
What is a pun?
300
O brawling love / O loving hate are examples of this term that has two opposites to describe or explain one thing.
What is an oxymoron?
300
Women were not allowed to attend theater unless this measure was taken.
What is having to dress up like a man.
300
The number of lines in a sonnet
What are 14
400
The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" actually dealt with this disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death?
400
The main character of a tragedy whose on flaws lead to his downfall or demise is known as this.
What is a tragic hero?
400
Samson and Gregory using the words coal, collier, choler, and collar are examples of this term.
What is a pun?
400
Those audience members who only paid a penny to stand in front of the stage to watch a play
What are the groundlings?
400
The type of verse Shakespeare mostly uses in his plays
What is blank verse?
500
Plays were performed during the daytime primarily for this reason.
What is because there wasn't a roof.
500
A one person speech when a character is expressing his or her thoughts while alone is an example of this term.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Romeo to Mercutio is an example of this term.
What is a foil?
500
The Globe Theater was built on the wrong side of the famous river in London in this year.
What is 1599?
500
The total number of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of Shakespearean verse