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Holinshed’s Chronicles

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A resource concerning Scotland, Ireland, and England

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Interpolations

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Writings in Shakespeare that were interjections by others

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Hapax Legomenon

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The only use of a word in a Shakespearean work

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Eponymous Play

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A play with the main character in the title - I.E., Richard the Third

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OP

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Original Pronunciation

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Original Pronunciation

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Ben and David Crystal

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Concordance

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A compilation of Shakespeare’s words and works

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Anti-Blazon

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The opposite of traditional Blazon poetry, praising the woman.

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Left to Anne Hathaway

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Second-best bed

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Holy Trinity Church

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Where William Shakespeare is buried

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Southbank/Bankside

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Red-light district - known for theatre, bear fights, and prostitution

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Location: Shoreditch, Date: 1576

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First Theatre built

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The Theatre

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James Burbage

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Lord’s Room at the Globe

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A place to be seen, not to see. Cost ~5p

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Green Rooms

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Dressing/Break rooms

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Visschers Engraving

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Shows a panoramic view of London, also showing the Globe and the redlight district

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Frons Scenae

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Front/Decorative wall

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Phillip Henslowe

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Manager of the Rose Theatre

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Groundlings

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The cheap tickets, but the best place to see the actual play - usually cost ~1p

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Elision

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Cutting down words to save syllables - ‘tis, o’er, etc.

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This Wooden O

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The open ceiling of the Globe

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Bear Baiting/Bear Gardens

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Bloodsport

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Harry Hunks and George Stone

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The people’s favorite bears

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April 23rd

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Shakespeare’s birth/death, Saint George’s Day

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Blackfriar’s Theatre

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An indoor theatre, the home of Catherine of Aragon’s hearing

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Sam Wanamaker

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The creator of the Globe replica

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Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem

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The Globe’s Motto: All the world plays a role

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Theo Crosby

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New Globe

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Peter Street

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Old Globe

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The Groom of the Stool

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Wipes the King’s butt

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Doctrine of the Humors

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Blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm

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King Edward VI Grammar School

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Shakespeare’s School

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Defeat of Spanish Armada

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King James

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Gunpowder Plot

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Geocentric Universe

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Earth at center, Ptolemy

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Heliocentric Universe

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Sun at center, Copernicus

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Gallows

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Closing of theatres

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Quadrivium

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Arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, music

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Trivium

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Grammar, logic, rhetoric

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Seven Ages of Man speech

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As You Likes it, Jaques

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Reverend Francis Gastrell

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Second Owner of New Place, destroyed it

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Droeshout, Cobbe, and Chandos

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Portraits of Shakespeare

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Cardenio

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A lost play based on Don Quixote

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Shakespeare’s life and death

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April 23rd, 1564-April 23rd, 1616

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Anne Hathaway

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Shakespeare’s wife

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Joan Shakespeare

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William’s sister

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Brogger

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Unlicensed wool dealer - Shakespeare’s dad

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County Warwickshire

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Stratford-Upon-Avon

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Hall’s Croft

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Home of John Hall and wife Susannah Shakespeare

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New Place

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Shakespeare’s Retirement Home

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Snitterfield

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John Shakespeare’s birthplace

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Mary Arden

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Shakespeare’s mom

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Shottery

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Home of Hathaway’s cottage

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Wilmcote

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Mary Arden’s home

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Dr. John Hall

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Husband to Shakespeare’s daughter Susannah

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Susannah, Hamnet, Judith

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Shakespeare’s kids

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Richard Burbage

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Principle actor in Lord Chamberlain’s men

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Gravestone Epitath

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Long poem on gravestone

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Sir Thomas Lucy and Charlecot Park

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Shakespeare poached from here

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Lord Admiral’s Men

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Playwright Ben Jonson

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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Playwright Shakespeare

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King’s Men

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men after James I became King

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Cristopher Marlowe

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Wrote Barrabas

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University Wit

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Oxford or Cambridge Trained

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John Heminge and Henry Condell

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Made the first folio

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First Folio

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Bad quartos

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plagiarized quartos

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“Sweet Swan of Avon”

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Ben Jonson

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Robert Green

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Called Shakespeare “Upstart Crow”

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David Garrick

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Restored Shakespeare’s reputation - manager of Theatre Royal Drury Lane

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Emilia Lanier

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Candidate for the Dark Lady of the Sonnets

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Southwark Cathedral

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Burial Place of Edmund Shakespeare

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Venus and Adonis

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Shakespeare’s Erotic Narrative Poem

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Shakespeare’s Favorite Classic Writer

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Ovid, author of Metamorphoses

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Hornbook

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