About Shakespeare
Shakespeare played this role in Hamlet.
Who is the Ghost?
Queen Elizabeth was given this nickname because she refused to marry.
What is the "Virgin Queen"?
This was the name of Shakespeare's theatre.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This is the approximate number of words that Shakespeare invented.
What is 1,700?
This was the FIRST name of Shakespeare's acting company.
What is Lord Chamberlain's Men?
This was the name of the plague that spread across Europe during Queen Elizabeth's reign.
What is the Black Plague/Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
This special effect was used for ghosts and devils to rise up.
What is a trap door?
These are the two types of syllables that are found in Iambic Pentameter.
What are stressed and unstressed/long and short?
What was the FINAL name of Shakespeare's acting company?
What is the King's Men?
This man attempted an uprising against the Queen.
Who is Robert Devereaux?
This is what audiences would do after plays started.
What is mingling/conversing/cheering on or insulting actors?
This term refers to the last two lines of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
These were the numbers of plays AND sonnets that Shakespeare wrote.
What is 37 and 154?
This was the punishment for the man who attempted an uprising against the Queen.
What is beheading/execution?
These are representative of the costumes that Shakespearean actors wore.
What is contemporary Elizabethan attire/court dress/royal clothing?
In Iambic Pentameter, this is the number of "feet" per verse.
What is 5?
What are Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, and The Comedy of Errors?
This was the play that Shakespeare was tasked with writing during the period of rebellion against the Queen.
What is Richard II?
This was the term for audience members who stood on the ground.
What is "groundling"?
This is the term for four lines of a sonnet.
What is a quatrain?