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Why is Shakespeare Famous?
The Young Shakespeare
Shakespeare In London
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100
Shakespeare was born in this city.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon, England?
100
Shakespeare’s father had this important government job in the town of Stratford.
What is Mayor?
100
This was the year the first theater opened in London:
What is 1576?
100
This feature made Globe Theaters unique:
What is they were round and open to the sky?
100
Shakespeare was this age when he died:
What is 52?
200
This was the year Shakespeare was born.
What is 1564?
200
Shakespeare possibly saw this famous person when he was eleven.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
200
This terrible event happened in London in 1593:
What is the plague.
200
This word would describe all of the actors during Shakespeare's time period:
What is male?
200
Shakespeare wrote, or helped to write, this many plays during his lifetime:
What are 38?
300
Shakespeare became famous by doing this:
What is writing plays?
300
Shakespeare took these classes while attending grammar school:
What are Latin, Greek, and history?
300
This was the effect of theaters closing down, due to the plague, on Shakespeare's career:
What is he started writing poems?
300
Shakespeare wrote these types of plays:
What are comedies, tragedies, and histories?
300
Shakespeare left his wife this in his will:
What is his second best bed?
400
One major historical event that took place in England during Shakespeare's life was:
What is the Spanish Armada? OR... What is the coronation of King James I? OR... What is the Gunpowder Plot?
400
Shakespeare was this age when he left school:
What is 16?
400
This is the reason historians know very little about Shakespeare's early life.
What is he did not write his life story?
400
This list includes some of the special effects used in plays in the 1500s and 1600s:
What are ghosts, witches, loud bangs, flames and smoke, drums, and cannons?
400
This is the reason it is difficult to read/understand some of Shakespeare's plays today:
What is the English language has changed?
500
Shakespeare is still relevant or important today in these ways:
What is Shakespeare theaters exist today, festivals are held, and people still use his work today.
500
Shakespeare married this woman in 1582:
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
This is why Shakespeare eventually moved to London.
What is London was the biggest city in England and full of opportunities?
500
This is the title of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy:
What is "Romeo and Juliet"?
500
What is a word or expression Shakespeare made up for his plays?
What is "quick as a flash"? OR... What is "blinking idiot"? OR... What is "I haven't slept a wink"?