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Will's Life
Will's Plays
Will's Career
Miscellaneuos
Will's Words
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What university did Shakespeare attend?
He never went to a university!
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How many plays did Shakespeare write? Sonnets?

37 plays! 154  Sonnets-All sonnets have fourteen lines and All sonnets are written in iambic pentameter

100
Which four careers did Shakespear pursue?
He was a playwright, poet, writer, and actor!
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What was Shakespeares most common nickname?
"The Bard"
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What word did Shakespeare invent?

Assassination

200
What is Shakespeares middle name?
His name in Latin is translated to "William of John Shakespeare", so he does not have a middle name.
200

What was the name of the main playing company Shakespeare first became a part of?

Lord Chamberlain's Men

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What reigns did Shakespeare live through

Queen Elizabeth/ King James

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What is a bard?
a poet, especially a lyric poet
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Which word did Shakespeare NOT make up? amazement/bedroom/birthplace/cold-hearted/sincerely

sincerely

300
Was Shakespeare an only child?
No, he was the third out of eight children.
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How old was Shakespeare when he wrote his first play?

25 years old

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What was his very first job?
He was a glove-maker
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How many of his own plays did he publish?
None(two friends published his work 7 years after his death)
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Which idioms were his? Break the ice/ eat out of house and home/elbow room/heart of gold/leapfrog

All of them and more!

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When did Shakespeare write his last piece of work?
1613, 3 years before he died.
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What were the different types of plays he wrote?
Comedies, Tragedies, Histories
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What was the average time it took shakespeare to write a play?
15 months
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Did Shakespeare ever retire?
Yes, after he moved back to Stratford due to failing health, he did retire.
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Which play is this famous line found, " ‘Et tu Brute?"

Julius Caesar

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Who was William's wife and how many children did they have?

Anne Hathaway, 3 Children

500

In Which theater was Shakespeare's first play performed?

The Globe

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How long did it take Shakespeare to write Romeo & Juliet?
2 years!
500

The Lion King (1994)' is a movie adaptation of which play by Shakespeare?

Hamlet

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‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ is the most famous line in which work?

Hamlet