About the Writer Flashcards
Year of birth and death.
1564-1616
Who was the article written by?
C. F. Main
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37 plays
When did he write his first play?
1589
Before which play was Shakespeare’s work all warm-ups?
Romeo and Juliet
What did Ben Jonson say about Shakespeare?
“not of an age, but for all time”
Where and when was Shakespeare born?
Stratford-on-Avon on April 26, 1564
Who was Shakespeare’s father and mother?
John Shakespeare and Mary Arden
What did Shakespeare learn in Grammar School?
Latin, the Bible, and English composition
When and who did he marry?
At the age of eighteen to a 27 years old woman named Anne Hathaway
How many children did Will and Anne have and what are their names?
Three: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith
What happened to the son?
He died when he was eleven.
When did Shakespeare retire?
1613
Name three of Shakespeare’s early plays.
Richard III; The Comedy of Errors; Titus Andronicus; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Romeo Juliet
What was the name of the house Shakespeare bought in Statford that was very handsome?
New Place
When did Shakespeare began to prosper?
1596
Who were the rulers when Shakespeare was living?`
Queen Elizabeth and King James
Name three plays that he completed during the last years of Elizabeth I’s reign.
Richard II; Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet(v important)
What did Queen Elizabeth ask him to write?
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Name three plays from his “tragic period”.
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra
Name three plays he wrote in his last years.
Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VIII
What was on his epitaph?
Good Friend, for Jesus’s sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here! Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones.
When was the first folio published?
1623
