Whose Life is it Anyway?
The number of siblings Shakespeare had
What is 7?
The year Shakespeare wrote his first play
What is 1590?
In Elizabethan England, it was believed that the planets could help tell what
What is the future course of a person's life?
A sonnet is made up of how many lines
What is fourteen?
There are this many elements in a tragedy
What are six?
The period of time from 1584-1592 where there are no documented records of Shakespeare's life and occupations
What are the Lost Years?
What acting was considered in Shakespeare's time
What is lying?
The stage could be viewed from how many sides?
What are three sides?
How many syllables (beats) are in a line of a sonnet?
What is ten?
Tragedies typically have the climax occur in this act
What is act three?
What is the title of the first ever printed collection of Shakespeare's plays, created by friends John Hemings and Henry Condell?
What is the First Folio?
Typhoid, Bubonic Plague, bad hygiene, malnutrion, and lack of access to medicine were the causes of what in Shakespeare's life?
What is high infant mortality?
Those who stood on the floor of the Globe Theatre were referred to as what
What is groundlings?
Shakespeare writes his sonnets and plays almost exclusively in what rhythm?
Hint: It's two words...
What is iambic pentameter?
This word means a long speech made by one actor in a play
What is a monologue?
Two authors Shakespeare studied at Stratford Grammar School
Who are Cicero and Ovid?
Shakespeare's bloodiest play, resulting in 14 deaths in five scenes
What is "Titus Andronicus"?
Who were not allowed to perform in plays in Elizabethan Englamd?
Who are women?
Sonnets are primarily made up of three stanzas of four lines known as what?
What is a quatrain?
The color green representing the idea of jealousy is an example of what drama term
What is symbolism?
What experience in Shakespeare's life is believed to have led him to write this line "Grief fills the room up of my absent child"?
What is the passing of his son, Hamnet?
Romeo and Juliet is what type of play?
What is a tragedy?
What is missing from the Globe Theatre that nowadays all indoor theaters have?
What is a roof?
In Sonnet 118, Shakespeare compares his love to this
What is a summer's day?
Tragedies are meant to leave audiences feeling both profoundly sad and ______
What is exhilarated?