Terms And Facts

Question 1

Shakespeare’s four great tradgeys

Answer 1

Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, othello

Question 2

What’s the other name for Macbeth?

Answer 2

The Scottish play

Question 3

Shakespeare’s most widely taught plays?

Answer 3

Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar

Question 4

Two comedies

Answer 4

Taming of the shrew, the tempest

Question 5

Two histories

Answer 5

Richard the 3rd, Henry the 5th

Question 6

Theater Shakespeare’s made famous?

Answer 6

The globe

Question 7

River running through London?

Answer 7

Thames

Question 8

Shakespeare’s hometown?

Answer 8

Stratford upon Avon

Question 9

Shakespeare’s wife?

Answer 9

Anne Hathaway

Question 10

What do you do to plays to indicate what they are?

Answer 10

Italicize or underline

Question 11

Monarchs during Shakespeare’s time?

Answer 11

Elizibeth the 1 and James the 1- both funded Shakespeare

Question 12

Shakespeare’s theater groups?

Answer 12

Lord chamberlains men, and kings men

Question 13

Who is Edward DeVvere

Answer 13

Potential author of Shakespeare’s works

Question 14

Difference between oxfordians and startfordians?

Answer 14

Oxfordians believe Edward DeVvere wrote the plays, startfordians believe Shakespeare did

Question 15

What is the first folio?

Answer 15

1st collection of Shakespeare’s plays

Question 16

Who are the penny knaves and groundlings?

Answer 16

People who stood not sat during plays, in the very front next to stage, poorer, generally undereducated