Shakespeare Facts Flashcards
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Categories of Shakespeare’s plays
Tragedy, comedy, history
Shakespeare’s 4 great tragedies
Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello
Shakespeare’s most widely taught plays
Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar
2 Shakespearean comedies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Taming of the Shrew
2 Shakespearean histories
Henry V, Richard III
Theatre he made famous
The Globe
River running through London
The Thames
Home town
Stratford on Avon
Wife
Anne Hathaway
Plays MUST be
Italicized (underlined if written)
Ben Jonson
Contemporary who said “Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time”
Monarch on the throne at the beginning of career
Elizabeth I
Monarch on throne at the end of his career
James I (James VI of Scotland)
Shakespeare’s theatrical groups
Lord Chamberlain’s Men
King’s Men
Scholars who believe Shakespeare wrote his atrributed plays
Stratfordians
Group of scholars believing Edward DeVere wrote the Shakespeare attributed plays
Oxfordians
Earl of Oxford many people believe wrote the Shakespeare attributed plays
Edward DeVere
Original collection of Shakespeare’s works
First Folio
Name given to the common people who stood in “the pit” for plays
Penny Knaves/Groundlings
Aside
Line spoken by actor to the audience that no one on stage hears
Soliloquy
Dramatic (usually long) speech given by a characte to himself, usually revealing his thoughts or reflections
Sonnet
A poem of 14 rhyming lines
Couplet
2 lines of poetry that usually rhyme
Exposition
Beginning/part of the story that reveals the basics of the tale
