William Shakespeare

What language were many of the Elizabethans' new words were borrowed from?

Greek and Latin

What did Caxton's introduction of the printing press help to standardize?

Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar

1. Wife 2. Mother 3. Daughter 4. Son 5. Home purchased in 1597 6. Company under James 1

1. Anne Hathaway 2. Mary Arden 3. Susanna 4. Hamnet 5. New Place 6. King's Men

Choose the correct date for the event in Shakespeare's life. his birth: the year he was married: the year in which he probably left Stratford for the first time to begin life in London: his death:

1. 1564 2. 1582 3. 1585 4. 1616

1. last play 2. early 17th century tragedy 3. late comedy 4. history play 1590s 5. "dark comedy" 6. early comedy 7. June 1592-April 1594 8. 1593-1601

1. Henry VIII 2. King Lear 3. The Winter's Tale 4. Richard II 5. Measure for Measure 6. Love's Labour's Lost 7. Venus and Adonis 8. sonnets

Shakespeare wrote _______ sonnets.

154

Shakespeare wrote two long poems between June 1592 and April___________ when the theaters were closed because of__________.

1594 The plague

In ,__________Shakespeare wrote his earliest tragedy called ______________ .

1596 Romeo and Juliet

Scholars agree that Shakespeare wrote a total of_____ plays.

38

Look up bard in the dictionary. What is the meaning you believe is intended when Shakespeare is called the Bard of Avon?

Poet