shakespeare Flashcards
(44 cards)
what was Shakespeare’s hometown?
Stratford on Avon
what was Shakespeare’s wife’s maiden name
Anne Hathaway
what river runs through London?
Thames
what queen ruled for the last half of the 1500s?
Queen Elizabeth
people who believe Shakespeare is the true author are called…
Stratfordians
who succeeded queen Elizabeth?
King James
what 2 companies was Shakespeare involved in?
kings men, lord chamberlensmen
the first official collection if Shakespeare’s plays
first folio
people thought _______ wrote Shakespeare’s plays
Edward Devere
people who thought Shakespeare didn’t write his plays were called…
Oxfordians
un rhymed iambic pentameter is called..
blank verse
Shakespeare’s nickname
the bard
people standing on the ground watching the plays were called…
pennyknaves groundlings
3 main categories of Shakespeare’s plays
comedy, tragedy, history
list 4 tragedies
hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello
list 3 comedies
mid summers night dream, merchant of Venice, as you like it
list 2 histories
Richard 3, Henry 8
most taught
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar
personification
giving a non human thing human characteristics
simile
comparing two things using like or as
implied metaphor
comparing something without saying what you are comparing it to
Benvolio
Montague. cousin of Romeo. Lover not a fighter
Juliet
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Tybalt
Capulet. Cousin of Juliet. likes to fight