U6 L6 William Shakespeare

Question 1

Who was John Dryden?

Answer 1

17 cent English poet, dramatist, and critic

Question 2

How much is known about Shakespeare?

Answer 2

very little, only reliable facts are dates of important events in his life

Question 3

When and where was Shakespeare born?

Answer 3

maybe April 23, 1564, Stratford-on-Avon

Question 4

Who was Shakespeare’s parents?

Answer 4

• John Shakespeare, glove maker and tradesman

- Mary Arden

Question 5

What did Shakespeare learn at the local grammar school?

Answer 5

• Latin and some Greek

- read Latin playwright works

Question 6

When, at what age, and to who did Shakespeare marry?

Answer 6

• 18 yrs
• 1582
• Anne Hathaway

Question 7

How much older was Anne Hathaway compared to shakespeare?

Answer 7

7-8 years older

Question 8

Who and when was Shakespeare’s first child? Daughter or Son?

Answer 8

Daughter, Susanna, 1583

Question 9

When did Shakespeare have twins and what were their names?

Answer 9

• two years after Susanna
• Hamnet and Judith
• Hamnet died in childhood

Question 10

Between which years were there no records of Shakespeare activities?

Answer 10

1585 and 1592

Question 11

When did Shakespeare leave Stratford and went to London? And why?

Answer 11

• 1585

- begin apprenticeship as actor

Question 12

When and by who did Shakespeare receive a written attack by a jealous playwright?

Answer 12

• 1592

- Robert Greene

Question 13

In 1594, Shakespeare was an actor and playwright in which company?

Answer 13

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Question 14

What did the Lord Chamberlain’s Men became known as under the patronage of James I?

Answer 14

King’s Men

Question 15

By 1597, Shakespeare was wealthy to buy which house?

Answer 15

• New Place

- second largest house in stratford

Question 16

When did Shakespeare’s father die and was the same year Hamlet was written?

Answer 16

1601

Question 17

When did Shakespeare’s mother die?

Answer 17

1607

Question 18

When was Susanna and Judith married?

Answer 18

S- 1607

J- 1616

Question 19

When and where did Shakespeare permanently retire to?

Answer 19

1611, Stratford

Question 20

When did Shakespeare write his will?

Answer 20

March 25, 1616

Question 21

When did Shakespeare die?

Answer 21

April 23, 1616

Question 22

When did Anne Hathaway die?

Answer 22

August 6, 1623

Question 23

What did it mean when Shakespeare was called the Bard of Avon?

Answer 23

poet of Avon

Question 24

Scholars generally agree that Shakespeare wrote how many plays?

Answer 24

38

Question 25

What are the 3 broad categories of Shakespeare’s plays?

Answer 25

• comedies
• tragedies
• histories

Question 26

What are Shakespeare’s earlier comedies?

Answer 26

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

- Love’s Labours Lost

Question 27

What are Shakespeare’s later dark comedies?

Answer 27

• All’s Well That Ends Well

- Measure For Measure

Question 28

What were Shakespeare’s history/chronicle plays about?

Answer 28

past kings of England

Question 29

When were Shakespeare’s history/chronicle plays written?

Answer 29

last decade of 16th century when patriotic interest was high

Question 30

What are Shakespeare’s history/chronicle plays?

Answer 30

• Henry IV, V, VI, VIII
• Richard II, III
• King John

Question 31

What play began the period of Shakespeare’s tragedies?

Answer 31

Julius Caesar

Question 32

What tragedies did Shakespeare write in the first decade of the 17th century?

Answer 32

• Hamlet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Antony and Cleopatra

Question 33

What was the earliest tragedy that Shakespeare wrote? And when?

Answer 33

• 1596

- Romeo And Juliet

Question 34

Where and what types were Shakespeare’s last plays?

Answer 34

• Stratford

- tragedy and comedy

Question 35

What were the last plays Shakespeare wrote?

Answer 35

• Pericles
• Cymbeline
• The Winter’s Tale
• The Tempest

Question 36

What was Shakespeare’s last history play? When was it published?

Answer 36

Henry VIII, 1613

Question 37

Is there doubt Shakespeare wrote Henry VIII?

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

What were Shakespeare’s first two long narrative poems that were published?

Answer 38

• Venus Adonis

- Lucrece

Question 39

Between which years did Shakespeare write Venus Adonis and Lucrece? And why?

Answer 39

June 1592 and April 1594, because of plague

Question 40

Between which years did Shakespeare compose his 154 sonnets?

Answer 40

1593 and 1601

Question 41

What was the Passionate Pilgrim?

Answer 41

volume of 20 poems

Question 42

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Answer 42

154

Question 43

What was The Phoenix and the Turtle?

Answer 43

67 line poem

Question 44

What was A Lover’s Complaint?

Answer 44

329 line poem

Question 45

Some scholars maintain that Shakespeare wrote only how many of the 20 Pilgrim poems?

Answer 45

5

Question 46

Do all agree Shakespeare wrote A Lover’s Complaint?

Answer 46

no

Question 47

What is Shakespeare’s language classified as?

Answer 47

Modern English

Question 48

When might have been the beginning of the Modern English Period?

Answer 48

about 1500

Question 49

What was one major contribution to a uniform English language? And when?

Answer 49

printing press by William Caxton in 1479

Question 50

What did Caxton’s printing press help standardize?

Answer 50

• spelling
• grammar
• vocabulary

Question 51

What language were many Elizabethan new words borrowed from?

Answer 51

Greek and Latin

Question 52

If you see the word Archaic or abbreviation Obs. in brackets, what does it mean?

Answer 52

word is no longer used or obsolete