Congratulations! Your team has earned 100 free points, and you retain control.
100
Shakespeare was born in this town in England.
What is Stratford-Upon-Avon?
100
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Congratulations! Your team has earned 100 free points, and you retain control.
100
This stage has the audience on only one side and sometimes features an apron.
What is a proscenium stage?
100
The ruling monarch in England when Shakespeare was born.
Who is Elizabeth I?
200
The first English plays were not written until this year. (Your answer must be accurate within 25 years.)
What is 1375 CE?
200
William Shakespeare's wife.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
200
The infamous Henry VIII created this church because he wanted to divorce his wife, Katherine of Aragon.
What is the Anglican Church (or the Church of England)?
200
This stage type features the audience on three sides.
What is a thrust stage?
200
We use the terms "left" and "right" on a stage, using this person's perspective.
What is the actor's perspective?
300
These two cultures developed theatre around the same time (2,000 BCE).
What are Indians and Egyptians?
300
The number of plays written by William Shakespeare. (Some scholars disagree, but this is the most commonly accepted number.)
What is 37?
300
When religions shut down theatres or ban theatre from being performed, who USUALLY starts doing theatre again?
What is the church (or religion)?
300
This type of stage has audience on all sides.
(BONUS: Retain control if you can give both names.)
What is a theatre-in-the-round or arena stage?
300
A vehicle used by acting companies in medieval times (and beyond!) to go from town to town as a portable stage.
What is a pageant wagon?
400
This century featured the beginning of a new way of performing theatre, called "Realism."
What is the 19th Century?
400
A form of poetry written in iambic pentameter with fourteen lines, three quatrains, a rhymed couplet, and a rhyme scheme of ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG. Shakespeare wrote 154 of these.
What is a sonnet?
400
Unlike her father, this queen of England was a strict Catholic and was known for killing Protestants.
Who is Mary Tudor (or "Bloody Mary")?
400
Two names for a stage with the audience on two opposite sides, facing each other.
(BONUS: Retain control if you can name at least three of the four names.)
What is a traverse, alley, tennis court, or corridor stage?
400
The name of the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
500
The very first known culture group to perform any kind of theatre.
What are Africans? (c. 8,500 BCE)
500
TEAM PLAY!!! Given a one-minute time limit, teams will create a list of plays written by William Shakespeare. The team with the most correct answers wins the points. (Incorrect answers count against you.)
[TEACHER ANALYSIS]
500
After nearly twenty years of being closed by Oliver Cromwell and other Puritans in power, Charles II took the throne, and theatres opened again in England, marking the beginning of this period of theatre.
What is Restoration Theatre?
500
RACE!!! DRAW!!! All teams will draw an accurate chart of the nine basic stage areas, labeling them with full names AND abbreviations. The first team to finish with the correct information wins the points.
[TEACHER ANALYSIS]
500
The reason we use the terms "up" and "down" on a stage instead of "back" and "front."
What is "In former times, stages were built with a raked (slanted) surface, so actors would literally walk up or down the stage."