Shakespeare Flashcards
Birth date
April 23 1564
Death date
April 23, 1616
what was the period of time called when Shakespeare was alive
Elizabethan era
What was shakespeares sons name
Hamnet
What was his wife’s name
Anne Hathaway
Fathers occupation
Glove maker, English buisnessman , trader
Who was englands queen during the majority of his life
Queen Elizabeth I
What did he study in grammar school
Latin authors
What theater company did he join and what did it change its name to
Lord chamberlans man and changed to the kings men
When is William Shakespeare day
April 23
What was his common nickname
The bard
How old was he when he wrote his first play
25
How many plays and sonnets did he write
37 plays 154 sonnets
What were three types plays he wrote
Comdies, histories, tradgeudes
What is a soliloquy
A long speech expressed with no one else on the stage
What is a rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem or song
What type of poetry did he write
Sonnets in iambic pentameter
Name one word he invented
Gossip
Definition of iambic pentameter
5 feet 10 syllables
Who were Pyramus and thisbe
Forbidden lovers
What was a play that was influenced by pyramid and thosbe
Romeo and Juliet
Where is the globe theater located
London
Who were the groundling
People who payed 1 peeling to see the performance and stand on the ground
Why did no one attend the plays at nighth
There was no electricity and artificial lighting
Could women be attacftess
No female parts were played by men
When someone died how did the body exit the stage
It was dragged out of went through a trap door
What year did the globe theater burn down
1613
During what play did the theater burn down
Henry VIII
How did the theater burn down
The cannon was misfired and hit a peice of wood wi high faught on fire
