William Shakespeare Test
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- Nickname
- The Bard of Avon
- Born When and where
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April 23, 1564
Stratford upon Avon, England - Died When and Where
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April 23, 1616
Stratford, England - Name of Acting Company
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
Then changed to: The King's Men - Who he married at how old
- Anne Hathaway when he was 18
- # of children & names
- 3 kids: Susanna, Hamnet, Judith
- Wrote what genres?
- Mainly comedy, tragedy, and history.
- Astrology
- The belief that the stars and planets determined fate
- Alchemy
- Involved turning ordinary metals into gold and finding the Elixir of Life
- Four Humors
- Earth, Air, Fire, Water
- Theatre his plays were performed at
- The Globe Theatre in London
- Renaissance
- from 1300 to 1650, began in Italy and spread west, a rebirth
- Humanism
- philosophy that focused on human talents and abilities; individual strive to improve oneself
- Queen Elizabeth I's Reign
- Took over in 1558 and died 1603, never married; proclaimed Church of England the official church
- Bubonic Plague
- aka Black death, black plague; causes swelling and bleeding under the skin; not contagious
- The Levels of Elizabethan England
- God, then King/Queen, nobility/clergy, gentry, commoners (adults, Children & teens
- Plays he wrote (just a few)
- Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentelemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part 1 and 2
- Differences between theater in Shakespeare's Time and Now
- Then: very few props, no backdrop so setting told in dialogue, simple costumes, many people stood and watched
- # of Plays written by Shakespeare
- 37
- What he considered himself/ his job
- Mainly considered self poet, but was playwrite and actor too
- What was considered the center of the universe in Shakespeare's time?
- The Earth
- Astronomy
- the study of outer space