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1
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Shakespeares Narrative Poems

A

Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; A Lover’s Complaint

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2
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Sonnet Total

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154

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3
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What is the source material for Macbeth?

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Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (Holinshed’s Chronicles)

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4
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The lost work of Shakespeare?

A

Cardenio

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5
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When another author writes in someones work

A

Interpolations

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6
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Word occuring only once in a body of text

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Hapex legomenon

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7
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Longest hapex legonmenon

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Occured in ‘Love’s Labor Lost’ (t honorificabilitudinitatibus)

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8
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Shakespeare Birth

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April 23, 1564

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9
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Shakespeare’s Death

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April 23, 1616

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10
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A Shakespeare Contemporary

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Christopher Marlow, born in the same year, died much earlier

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11
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Wife

A

Anne Hathaway

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12
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Where was Hathaway born?

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Shottery

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13
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What was Hathaway left in the will?

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Second Best Bed

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14
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Dark Lady

A

Emilia Lanier

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15
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John Shakespeare’s birth place

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Snitterfield

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16
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What did John do

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was a brogger– illegal wool trader

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17
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Significant things about Shakespeare’s mum

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botn in Wilmcote; last name Arden for the Arden editions

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18
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Who is Edmund Shakespeare?

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Eighth child, buried in Southwark Cathedral

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19
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Where do direct decendants of Shakespeare come from?

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Joan Shakespeare and Willian Hart

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20
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Where was Shakespeare born?

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Stratford-upon-Avon; Henly Street

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21
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Shakespeare’s kids

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Susannah, Hamnet, Judith (Hamnet died)

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22
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Who did Susannah marry

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John Hall; lived in Hall’s Croft three minutes from Holy Trinity Church where Shakes is buried

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23
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Shakespeare’s granddaughter

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Elizabeth, Susannah’s daughter, married Thomas Nash

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24
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Sir Thomas Lucy

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Owned Charlecote Park; Shakes was allegedly poaching deer on the land; left town

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25
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Who did Shakespeare study

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Ovid, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Seneca, Plautus, and Terence

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26
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Shake’s favorite

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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27
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Shakespeare’s Epitaph

A

Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones

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28
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What was someone who went to University called?

A

Wit

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29
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University Wits

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Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, etc

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30
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Who is Ben Johnson?

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sons of Ben or ‘Tribes of Ben,; would gather in taverns and record conversations

31
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How did Christoper Marlowe die?

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Killed in a tavern brawl, stabbed in the eye

32
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What did Marlowe write?

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Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine, and Jew of Malta (Barrabas)

33
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Henry Wriotheselt

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3rd Earl of South Hampton, patron of the arts and Shakespeare

34
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Roderigo Lopez

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A Jewish-Portuguese doctor, executed in Elizabeth’s reign for plotting

35
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Henry Carey

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Lord Hudson/Lord Chamberlain; supported Shakes– Lord Chamberlain’s Men

36
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James Burbage

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1576, named the first theatre The Theatre

37
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Burbage son

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Richard Burbage, star of the Lord Chamberlain’s men

38
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Lord Admiral’s Men

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Ben Johnson is cheif writer; Edward Alleyn star actor; preform in The Rose

39
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First Folio

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Put together by John Heminge and Henry Condell in 1623

40
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Shakespeares clowns

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Will Kempe, Robert Armin, Richard Tarlton; Kempe preformed Kempe’s jig from London to Norwich

41
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Francis Meres

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First contemporary to recognize Shakespeare’s greatness

42
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Ben Johnson said…

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“sweet swan of Avon” & “small Latin and less Greek” & “not of an age, but for all time”

43
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Robert Greene said…

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“upstart crow”

44
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David Garrick said….

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“bard of all bards was a Warwickshire Bard”

45
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What was Elizabethean popcorn?

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Hazelnuts

46
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Plague Bill

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Theatres closed due to plague; waited until a certain number of people died

47
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People who stood on the ground

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Groundlings

48
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Best place to be seen, couldn’t see the play

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Lord’s rooms

49
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The money box

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Box Office

50
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Bankside Entertainment

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Bear baiting, Pubs, Bowling, Prostitution

51
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Bears

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Harry Hunks and George Stone

52
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Only indoor theatre for Shakespeare

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Blackfriars Theater

53
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Henry’s wives

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Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

54
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Cleans the royal arse

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The Groom of the Stool

55
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Boy who is punished in place of the prince

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Whipping boy

56
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Humors

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Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile

57
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Quadrivium

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Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy

58
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Trivium

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Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric

59
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Petty School

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School for little kids

60
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A wooden paddle book used at Petty Schools

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Hornbook

61
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Gun Powder Plot

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Guy Fawkes, November 5, 1605

62
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Heliocentric vs. Geocentric

A

Copernicus

63
Q

Site of hangings

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Tyburn gallows with the Triple Tree

64
Q

Old Globe Architect

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Peter Street; float the pieces across to bankside

65
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New Globe

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Theo Crosby (architect) & Sam Wanamaker

66
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When did the theaters close?

A

1642

67
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What theater was used to recreate the Globe?

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Swan Sketch Johannes de Witt

68
Q

Best Shakespeare Library in the US?

A

Folger Shakespeare Library

69
Q

Where is Shakespeare Buried?

A

Holy Trinity Church; Seven Ages of Man stained glass window from ‘As You Like It’

70
Q

Where did Shakespeare Retire?

A

New Place

71
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Who is the bane of Shakespeare lovers?

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Reverend Francis Gastrell, had New House razed because of visitors

72
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Who revived Shakespeare’s reputation?

A

David Garrick

73
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Who put together the First Folio?

A

John Heminge & Henry Condell