Shakespeare Vocabulary

Question 0

Renaissance period description

Answer 0

Newly discovered interest and development in the cultural worlds of art and liturature

Question 1

Renaissance period date

Answer 1

14c.-17c.

Question 2

Elizabethan Era time period

Answer 2

1558-1603

Question 3

Elizabethan era description

Answer 3

During the rein of queen Elizabeth 1

The theatre flourished because she loved it

Question 4

Shakespeare was born when?

Answer 4

April 23, 1564

Question 5

Shakespeare was born where?

Answer 5

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 6

Shakespeare was the # child of who?

Answer 6

Third child (first son) of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden’s eighth children

Question 7

What did Shakespeare’s father do?

Answer 7

Glove Maker
Grain-dealer
Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 8

Where did Shakespeare study Latin

Answer 8

At grammar school

Question 9

What did Shakespeare study at grammar school

Answer 9

Latin

Question 10

To what age did Shakespeare go to grammar school

Answer 10

Fifteen or sixteen

Question 11

Who did Shakespeare marry?

Answer 11

Anne Hathaway

Question 12

When did Shakespeare get married to Anne Hathaway

Answer 12

November 1582

Question 13

When was Shakespeare’s daughter Susannah born?

Answer 13

May, 1583

Question 14

When were Shakespeare’s children twins Hamnet and Judith born?

Answer 14

February, 1585

Question 15

When did Shakespeare’s daughter Hamnet die?

Answer 15

1596

Question 16

Who are Shakespeare’s children?

Answer 16

Susannah, Hamnet and Judith

Question 17

When are the missing years

Answer 17

1585-1592

Question 18

What did Shakespeare do during the missing years?

Answer 18

He moved to London

Question 19

What happened between 1592-1594

Answer 19

The theatres were closed because of plague epidemics

Question 20

What happened between 1594-1603

Answer 20

Shakespeare was an actor and a playwright for Lord Chamberlain’s Men acting company

Question 21

What happened in 1604

Answer 21

After Queen Elizabeth I’s death, James I renamed the company after the Kings Men

Question 22

Shakespeare gained the approval of monarchs in what way?

Answer 22

An actor

A playwright

Question 23

What happened because of Shakespeare gained the approval of monarchs

Answer 23

Shakespeare was invited to perform at court

Question 24

When did Shakespeare write the Taming of the Shrew?

Answer 24

1592-1593

Question 25

What is the "Taming of the Shrew"

Answer 25

An entertaining farce that deals with the conflict between the senses and the comic situations this conflict creates

Question 26

What type of story is "The Taming of the Shrew"

Answer 26

A comedy

Question 27

When did Shakespeare write "Romeo and Juliet"?

Answer 27

1595-1596

Question 28

What type of story was "Romeo and Juliette"

Answer 28

A tragic love story

Question 29

When did Shakespeare write "Mcbeth"?

Answer 29

1605-1606

Question 30

What type of story was "Mcbeth"

Answer 30

A tragedy of greed, betrayal, and murder

Question 31

When was the globe theatre built?

Answer 31

1599

Question 32

What was built in 1599?

Answer 32

The globe theatre

Question 33

What building did Shakespeare one of the founder of?

Answer 33

The Blackfriars Theatre

Question 34

When was the Blackfriars Theatre built?

Answer 34

1608

Question 35

Where did Shakespeare return to from 1610 to 1612?

Answer 35

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 36

When did Shakespeare die?

Answer 36

April 23, 1616

Question 37

Where did shakespeare die?

Answer 37

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 38

Who were the people who published Shakespeare's works?

Answer 38

Robert Heminge and Henry Condell

Question 39

When were Shakespeare's works published?

Answer 39

1623

Question 40

What was the name of the collection of Shakespeare's works

Answer 40

The First Folio

Question 41

Shakespeare's plays are divided into what categories?

Answer 41

Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies

Question 42

What is an aside?

Answer 42

A speech in which the speaker turns away from the other characters and reveals his true feelings or intentions to the audience or another character

Question 43

What is a Soliliquy?

Answer 43

A speech in which the speaker is alone with his private thoughts. This enables the audience to overhear what a character is really thinking.

Question 44

What is an Iambic foot?

Answer 44

Two syllables that begin with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Question 45

What is an Iambic pentameter?

Answer 45

Five Iambic feet in a row (ten syllables alternating unstressed, stressed...)