Shakespeare 3223

Question 1

Theatre

Answer 1

first permanent theatre in London

outside of city walls

Question 2

Seneca

Answer 2

4 bc - ad 65
adds Roman aspects to Greek sources
dwells on the horrific

Question 3

Anti-Vagrance Movements

Answer 3

1500s

meant acting companies needed aristocratic patronage

Question 4

Admiral’s Men

Answer 4

competing acting company consisting of folks like Henslowe and Edward Alleyn

Question 5

Leicester’s Men

Answer 5

another competing acting company

Question 6

Blackfriar’s Theatre

Answer 6

first theatre within city walls (b/c on church land exempt from no theatre laws)
private, indoor theatre
avant-gard type stuff - preformed by children’s companies
Shakespeare acquires this theatre in 1608

Question 7

Gorbadus

Answer 7

1561
by Sackville and Norton
first Senecan style tragedy in English

Question 8

Christopher Marlowe

Answer 8

one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
1564 - 1593 (born same year as Shakespeare)
wrote Hero and Leander among other stuff
was killed in a barroom brawl (stabbed in the eye)

Question 9

William Shakespeare

Answer 9

1564- 1616

Question 10

Edward Alleyn

Answer 10

1566 - 1626

lead actor of the Admiral’s Men (their version of Richard Burbage)

Question 11

Richard Burbage

Answer 11

1567 - 1619

lead actor in Shakespeare’s company

Question 12

Ben Jonson, the Mighty

Answer 12

1572-1637
one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
very particular about printing stuff

Question 13

The Spanish Tragedy

Answer 13

play written by Thomas Kyd
most successful Elizabethan play
performed by the Admiral’s Men
first revenge tragedy, similar to Hamlet and Titus Andronicus

Question 14

Phillip Henslowe

Answer 14

manager of the Admiral’s Men

kept a diary of their activities, how we know most of what we know about the theatre of the time

Question 15

William Kempe

Answer 15

1560 - 1603
big actor in Shakespeare’s company
did comic roles

Question 16

Sir Thomas More

Answer 16

1478 - 1535
one of Shakespeare’s sources for Richard III
where a lot of the extra cruel bits come from

Question 17

Raphael Holinshed

Answer 17

Chronicles (1577, 1587)

one of Shakespeare’s sources for Richard III

Question 18

Greene’s Groatsworth of Witte

Answer 18

first reference to Shakespeare in print
1592
upstart crow beautified with our feathers

Question 19

Colly Cibber

Answer 19

overhauled / adapted Richard III in 1699

Question 20

Henry Irving

Answer 20

restored Shakespeare’s version of Richard III in 1877

Question 21

Lord Chamberlain’s Men
or
The King’s Men

Answer 21

Shakespeare’s acting company

includes Richard Burbage and William Kempe

Question 22

Venus and Adonis

Answer 22

poem
first publication (1593)
had a dedication (to Henry Wriothesly Earl of Shouthampton)
his most successful work
went through 9 ed. within his life

Question 23

Henry VIII

Answer 23

written w/ John Fletcher

“brought the house down” literally - with cannon fire

Question 24

First Tetralogy

Answer 24

Henry VI parts 1 - 3

and Richard III

Question 25

John Fletcher

Answer 25

collaborated with Shakespeare

Question 26

Earl of Southampton

Answer 26

Venus and Adonis dedicated to him

patron of Shakespeare

Question 27

William Pohl

Answer 27

1852 - 1934)

started tradition of Shakespearean actors wearing poofy pants (Elizabethan dress)

Question 28

Charles Macklin

Answer 28

1690-1797

did Macbeth in Scottish dress

Question 29

Hero and Leander

Answer 29

by Christopher Marlowe
registered in 1593 (same yr as Venus and Adonis)
not published until 1598 (after Marlowe’s death)
English version of Ovid

Question 30

The English Gentleman
and
The English Gentlewoman

Answer 30

etiquette books

singles out Venus and Adonis as something you don’‘t want to be caught reading - highly unsuitable material

Question 31

The Passionate Pilgrime

Answer 31

published in 1599
20 poems relating to Venus and Adonis
most not by Shakespeare

Question 32

Arthur Golding

Answer 32

did an English translation of Ovid

Question 33

The Second Tetralogy

Answer 33

Richard II
Henry IV parts 1 - 2
Henry V

Question 34

Ovid

Answer 34

43 BC - AD 17
wrote (in Latin) Ars Amatoria and
Metamorphoses
source for Venus and Adonis (and Hero and Leander, etc.)

Question 35

Metamorphoses

Answer 35

by Ovid
> 200 pagan myths
well known, often memorized in grammar school
includes story of Venus and Adonis

Question 36

Sonnet 2

Answer 36

most popular Sonnet in commonplace books

about timelessness and redemption

Question 37

Commonplace Book

Answer 37

scrapbooks filled with recipes, quotes, proverbs, poems, tables, etc.
each unique to its creator
a practice taught in 17th century colleges
Sonnet 2 often copied down

Question 38

Sonnet 20

Answer 38

“master mistress of my passion” - whatever that means…

goes against Christian moral values

Question 39

Sonnet 126

Answer 39

only 12 lines (unfinished?)
different rhyme scheme (all couplets)
the 1609 ed. puts ( ) at the end for the “missing” two lines

Question 40

English Sonnet

Answer 40

14 lines
3 quatrains (4 lines each)
1 couplet at end

ABAB
CDCD
EFEF
GG

Question 41

Francis Meres

Answer 41

1565 - 1647
wrote about the sonnets 11 years before they were published
calls them “honey tongued” “sugared sonnets” shared among his private friends

Question 42

The Sonnets

Answer 42

154 sonnets published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe (w/o permission)
not originally numbered
advertised as new, though at least some were already circulating

Question 43

Thomas Thorpe

Answer 43

1570 - 1635?
Published in 1609 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
probably did not have Shakespeare’s permission
included “A Lover’s Complaint” - possibly by John Davies