About the Writer

Question 1

Year of birth and death.

Answer 1

1564-1616

Question 2

Who was the article written by?

Answer 2

C. F. Main

Question 3

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Answer 3

37 plays

Question 4

When did he write his first play?

Answer 4

1589

Question 5

Before which play was Shakespeare’s work all warm-ups?

Answer 5

Romeo and Juliet

Question 6

What did Ben Jonson say about Shakespeare?

Answer 6

“not of an age, but for all time”

Question 7

Where and when was Shakespeare born?

Answer 7

Stratford-on-Avon on April 26, 1564

Question 8

Who was Shakespeare’s father and mother?

Answer 8

John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

Question 9

What did Shakespeare learn in Grammar School?

Answer 9

Latin, the Bible, and English composition

Question 10

When and who did he marry?

Answer 10

At the age of eighteen to a 27 years old woman named Anne Hathaway

Question 11

How many children did Will and Anne have and what are their names?

Answer 11

Three: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith

Question 12

What happened to the son?

Answer 12

He died when he was eleven.

Question 13

When did Shakespeare retire?

Answer 13

1613

Question 14

Name three of Shakespeare’s early plays.

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What was the name of the house Shakespeare bought in Statford that was very handsome?

Answer 15

New Place

Question 16

When did Shakespeare began to prosper?

Answer 16

1596

Question 17

Who were the rulers when Shakespeare was living?`

Answer 17

Queen Elizabeth and King James

Question 18

Name three plays that he completed during the last years of Elizabeth I’s reign.

Answer 18

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)

Question 19

What did Queen Elizabeth ask him to write?

Answer 19

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question 20

Name three plays from his “tragic period”.

Answer 20

Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra

Question 21

Name three plays he wrote in his last years.

Answer 21

Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VIII

Question 22

What was on his epitaph?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

When was the first folio published?

Answer 23

1623