St. X Freshman English - Shakespeare Background Quiz

1564

Shakespeare's Birth Year

Shakespeare's Birthplace

Stratford-upon-Avon

April 23rd

Shakespeare's Birth AND death date

1616

Shakespeare's Death Year

Grammar School

Shakespeare's only education

Anne Hathaway

Shakespeare's wife

1582

Shakespeare's Year of Marriage

18

Shakespeare's Age at Marriage

26 (and pregnant)

Anne Hathaway's Age at Marriage

Susanna, Judith, Hamnet

Shakespeare's Children

Twelfth Night, Hamlet

Plays possibly connected to Hamnet

Hamnet's Age at Death

11 (1596)

London, 1592

To where and when does Shakespeare move away from his family?

Acting Business

Reason for Shakespeare's Move

1610-1613

Range of years within which Shakespeare returns to his family

1599

Year Shakespeare built The Globe

The Globe

Shakespeare's most famous theater

King's Men (originally Lord Chamberlain's Men)

Shakespeare's Acting Troupe

1593

Year many theaters close because of the plague

Year of First Folio's Creation

1623

Quartos

Inaccurate versions of Shakespeare's Plays (created by poets filling in the blanks)

No audition process, "chemistry," consistent paycheck, collective bargaining

Benefits of working with an acting troupe

Groundlings

Those who weren't wealthy enough to buy seats at the theatre.

Garlic

Groundlings' Food of Choice

Queen Elizabeth I

Virgin Queen, carried out government reforms that supported education and literacy

Iambic Pentameter

Shakespeare's famous poetic meter

Iamb

u / (unstressed, stressed)

Blank Verse

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

1600

Year Merchant of Venice was written

Comedy

Merchant of Venice is this type of drama

Bankside

The Globe's location

Richard Burbage

the most famous actor in Shakespeare's plays

Richard Burbage's Father

Financed many of Shakespeare's plays

John Heminges, Henry Condell

Compiled the First Folio