Shakespeare

Question 1

Birth date

Answer 1

April 23 1564

Question 2

Death date

Answer 2

April 23, 1616

Question 3

what was the period of time called when Shakespeare was alive

Answer 3

Elizabethan era

Question 4

What was shakespeares sons name

Answer 4

Hamnet

Question 5

What was his wife’s name

Answer 5

Anne Hathaway

Question 6

Fathers occupation

Answer 6

Glove maker, English buisnessman , trader

Question 7

Who was englands queen during the majority of his life

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 8

What did he study in grammar school

Answer 8

Latin authors

Question 9

What theater company did he join and what did it change its name to

Answer 9

Lord chamberlans man and changed to the kings men

Question 10

When is William Shakespeare day

Answer 10

April 23

Question 11

What was his common nickname

Answer 11

The bard

Question 12

How old was he when he wrote his first play

Answer 12

25

Question 13

How many plays and sonnets did he write

Answer 13

37 plays 154 sonnets

Question 14

What were three types plays he wrote

Answer 14

Comdies, histories, tradgeudes

Question 15

What is a soliloquy

Answer 15

A long speech expressed with no one else on the stage

Question 16

What is a rhyme scheme

Answer 16

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem or song

Question 17

What type of poetry did he write

Answer 17

Sonnets in iambic pentameter

Question 18

Name one word he invented

Answer 18

Gossip

Question 19

Definition of iambic pentameter

Answer 19

5 feet 10 syllables

Question 20

Who were Pyramus and thisbe

Answer 20

Forbidden lovers

Question 21

What was a play that was influenced by pyramid and thosbe

Answer 21

Romeo and Juliet

Question 22

Where is the globe theater located

Answer 22

London

Question 23

Who were the groundling

Answer 23

People who payed 1 peeling to see the performance and stand on the ground

Question 24

Why did no one attend the plays at nighth

Answer 24

There was no electricity and artificial lighting

Question 25

Could women be attacftess

Answer 25

No female parts were played by men

Question 27

When someone died how did the body exit the stage

Answer 27

It was dragged out of went through a trap door

Question 28

What year did the globe theater burn down

Answer 28

1613

Question 29

During what play did the theater burn down

Answer 29

Henry VIII

Question 30

How did the theater burn down

Answer 30

The cannon was misfired and hit a peice of wood wi high faught on fire