History Of Drama and Shakespeare

Question 0

Shakespeare’s Birth Place

Answer 0

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 1

Shakespeare’s Birthday

Answer 1

4-23-1564

Question 2

Shakespeare’s Father

Answer 2

John Shakespeare

Question 3

Shakespeare’s father’s profession and political office

Answer 3

Leather dresser and bailiff

Question 4

Shakespeare’s mother

Answer 4

Mary Arden

Question 5

Shakespeare’s wife and age

Answer 5

Anne Hathaway

26 years old when married

Question 6

Scandal surrounding Shakespeare’s marriage

Answer 6

The 18-year old Shakespeare got the 26-year old Anne Hathaway pregnant.

Question 7

Anne Whateley

Answer 7

There were two marriage licenses for two William Shakespeares. One William Shakespeare got married to Anne Hathaway, the other Wm. Shaxepeare got married to Anne Whateley

Question 8

Shakespeare’s children (name, spouse, death)

Answer 8

Hamnet: died at 11
Susanna Hall: John Hall, 7-11-1649
Judith Quiney: Thomas Quiney, 2-9-1662

Question 9

Sir Thomas Lucy

Answer 9

Shakespeare was caught poaching deer off of his land

Question 10

Robert Greene’s infamous assessment of William Shakespeare

Answer 10

Upstart crow

Question 11

Shakespeare’s acting group

Answer 11

Lord Chamberlin’s Men

Question 12

Shakespeare’s theater

Answer 12

The Globe

Question 13

Shakespeare’s will

Answer 13

He changed his will before his death, leaving nothing but the second best bed to his wife

Question 14

Shakespeare’s epitaph

Answer 14

“Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare to digg the dust encloased heare. Blest be ye man yt spares the stones and curst be he yt moves my bones”

Question 15

The first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 15

First Folio

Question 16

Peripatetic Entertainers

Answer 16

Traveling
Troubadours and Minstrels: sang and told stories
Jongleurs: above and danced

Question 17

Morris Dancers

Answer 17

Entertainment during Middle Ages
Performed in court and at festivals
Dancers dressed in elaborate colorful costumes

Question 18

Quern Quaentis

Answer 18

A priest in white to represent the angel and three additional priests representing the three Mary’s who visited the empty tomb

Question 19

Guild

Answer 19

Association of people in the same trade

Had responsibility of staging the plays

Question 20

Corpus Christi

Answer 20

Body of Christ

On feast day, guilds would assemble dramatic production of the life of Christ

Question 21

Yorke Cycle

Answer 21

Consisted of 50 Christian plays

Question 22

Morality Plays

Answer 22

Allegories that explored Christian Truth in daily lives

Question 23

Everyman

Answer 23

Everyman meets Death who declares Everyman must soon face Judgement. He realizes he must depend on Beauty, Strength, Intelligence, and Good Deeds

Question 24

Mystery Plays

Answer 24

A less humanistic approach in which morality plays grew out of

Question 25

The Theatre

Answer 25

James Burbage and Dr. John Dee built it Held 3000 people Blood sports were also held here

Question 26

Flags

Answer 26

Advertising for plays were illegal, so flags were used to signal that there was a play and what type of play

Question 27

Groundling

Answer 27

A commoner at a play On floor Eye level with stage

Question 28

The Great Chain of Being

Answer 28

Lowest Class: inanimate elements, liquids, and metals Vegetative Class: plants Sensitive Class: shellfish, dogs, horses Humankind

Question 29

Air

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Blood Sanguine Serene unruffled

Question 30

Fire

Answer 30

``` Yellow bile Choleric Bold Exuberant Quick to anger ```

Question 31

Water

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Phlegm Foolish Idle

Question 32

Earth

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``` Black bile Melancholy Stubborn Insolent Sad Slow ```

Question 33

Microcosm - macrocosm

Answer 33

Correspondences created analogies | What is happening inside a tiny dollhouse is also happening at the same time in the real world outside

Question 34

Anachronism

Answer 34

When something appears in literary work that is not in its correct historical or chronological time

Question 35

Malapropism

Answer 35

A confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replace by one with a similar sound

Question 36

Monosyllables

Answer 36

Single syllable words

Question 37

Pun

Answer 37

Play on words

Question 38

Shared lines

Answer 38

A line is divided between two or more characters

Question 39

Stychomythia

Answer 39

Dramatic dialogue | Two characters exchange rapid single lines partly echoing another's previous utterances