Shakespeare documentary

Real

A question remains whether the plot was _ or a ruse to smoke out enemies of the state

Globe

After landlord troubles, Shakespeare moved the theater, now called the _

Censored, fined

Also at this time, Purtians _ the theater, and Shakespeare was _ for profanity in his plays

Marlowe, university

Another famous playwright, Christopher _, was trendy, gay, and more importantly a _ graduate, which Shakespeare was not

Macbeth, good, coveting, Scottish

At this time Shakespeare wrote the play _ about plots, supernatural evil, and how a _ man could fall to evil by _ the crown. This play was performed for a _ king about the murder of a Scottish king

jealousy

At this time, the British government was discussing expelling all blacks from England, so Shakespeare makes a noble black man his tragic ero, a man who is destroyed by _

teaching

Because Catholic students needed to be schooled at home, there was money in _

Protestant Church

Edmund Campion brought news from the Pope that it was now a mortal sin to attend _, making it almost impossible for Catholic families to fit in with their Protestant country

Catholics

Elizabeth was threatened with death, and so moved harshly against all known _

Spies

Elizabethan England was essentially a police state in which _ recorded everything

Catholic, Protestant, The Pope, English Crown

England was in flux, the state religions changing from _ to _ and back again. Fighting for control of England were _ and _

plots, elsinore

From the Queensmen, Shakespeare took many of their best _ and gained historical and setting information from fellow actors who had traveled to places like _, the setting for Hamlet, Shakespeare's play about the Danish prince

William Herbert Earl of Pembrook

In 1597, Shakespeare wrote a large number of personal, romantic sonnets to _

11

In August 1596, Shakespeare's only son Hamnet, age _ died

Storms, time, children

In all Shakespeare's late plays, there are _ that destroy, but survivors are redeemed by _ and by their _

Stanley

James Burbrdige built the first commercial theater, at which Shakespeare worked. Ferdinardo _ owned the troop of actors that worked here, many of whom later became part of Shakespeare's own troop

Gunpowder, God

James announced the _ plot to blow up the royal family had been stopped in part because _ inspired him to see the plot for what it was

Gods, Meddle, Patrons

James had once said "Kings are _ on Earth" and that writers should not _ in their business. That the play was performed for a king is a reflection of how far artists believed they could go with their _ and how far their _ were willing to go with their artists

Kingsmen

James put Shakespeare's company on the royal payroll when he renamed them _

Protestant, Catholic

James was _ like Elizabeth, but had a wife who was _

The Queen, Catholic

John Shakespeare joined the Civic Order, making it his job to enfore the will of _ against _ friends and family

Autobiographical, Shakesperare himself

Many critcs have seen this play as _ suggesting the character of Prospero is really _

Cambridge

Marlowe had been recruited to spy for the crown while in _

Catholic, Horror, Contract

On the heels of the gunpowder plot, anti-_ plays began to appear, including The _ of Babylon and The Devil's _

The Queen

Plays concluded with a song dedicated to _

Latin, Grammar + religion

Schooling consisted heavily of memorization, with componenets in _ which was the language of high culture, and _

Queensmen, Catholic, Foreigner

Shakespeare left home again to take a job with the acting toop the _, who performed anti-_ and anti _ plays

King Lear, just

Shakespeare then wrote _ about how kings should live up to the ideals of a _ Christian society. In this play, the king loses everything by trusting the wrong people

Papist

Shakespeare was also attacked as a _ poet

Othello, Marriage

Shakespeare wrote _ about black Elizabethans and interracial _

Robert Southweld

Shakespeare's cousin _ was part of the Catholic underground, and wrote a manifesto on English poetry about the _ of the poet

Drawn, quartered

Shakespeare's cousin was hanged, then publicy _ and _

Protestant, Hall, Mixed, Priests

Shakespeare's daughter Suzanne married a _ doctor named John _, who seems to represent a reconciliation bewteen the old and the new, both in his and Suzanne's religiously _ marriage, and in the fact that he treated all patients, including Romish _

Stanley 2

Shakespeare's first play was performed under _

Sonnet

Shakespeare's first poem was a _ written to Anne on their wedding day, which made a pun on her name, and suggesting that Anne had saved _

Venus + Adonis

Shakespeare's first published work was the poem _

Henry VI

Shakespeare's play _ made him the top plauwright in London, surpassing Marlowe, by selling to an audience of _

Executed

Somerville committed suicide in his cell, but Edward Arden, the head of William's mother's family, was publicly _ although no evidence was ever found that any family member helped or aided Somerville - the injustice of this was never forgotten by William

War, Spanish, England, Peace

The Queensmen's performance had been designed to make the public willing to go to _ at the time the _ Armada was moving against England. Though outnumbered and outgunned, _ won this historic Battle, establishing Elizabeth as the heroine who brought _

Moral

The Tudors also performed plays in school, each play had a _ message

Mermaid, The tempest

The _ was a literary tavern in which a shareholder of a New World expedition gave a tale, which he turned into his play _

Susana, bed

The bulk of Shakespeare's will went to _, but he left small bequeaths to several acting friends, and to his wife he left his "second best _"

James

The crown then passed to the son of her enemy Mary Queen of Scots, James King of Scotland

Stationers

The job of the _ Company was to make sure nothing seditious was published, because authoritarian states always seek to control what people read

Follies, God

The manifesto suggested that poets wrote too often on the _ of love, when the poets' real duty was to glorify _

W.S

The manifesto was dedicated to Master _

Elizabeth, 45

The monarch, Queen _ died after a _ year reign

Power, rude

The mystery plays were banned when Will was 15, but he never forgot their raw _ and _ humor

Tempest, forgive, enemy, worlds + magic

The play The _ is about a father who is a control freak and bent on revenge, but who learns how to forgive when his daughter marries the son of his _. He then throws away his power as a maker of _

Henry

The poem Venus + Adonis was dedicated to 19 year old _, the Earl of Southhampton

Pride, go to war for country

The purpose of such pays was to promote _ in England's History and to make the British public feel they would be willing to _

Hamlet

The so called "War of the Poets" was won by Shakespeare with his play _, which was a huge success with both men and women

15,000

The theater entertained an audience of _ per week

Lanier, jew

The woman was most likely Emilia _, a Venetian _

Susana

Their first child was named _

Boy's plays

Twelth Night, a play in which mean and women cross dress, was Shakespeare's answer to the boy's plays

Anne Hathaway

When Will was 18, he married _, a farmer's daughter 8-9 years his senior, because she was pregnant

School

When William was 12, a recession in the wool industry and persecution of Catholics forced his family to sell their property, and Will had to be removed from _

Ovid

Will was introduced to poetry through the writer _ when he was 7-8 years old

Mystery, Creation, Flood, Fall

Will was taken to Coventry to see the _ plays, in which stories of the Bible were reenacted, such as the _, the_, and the _

Married, Dark

William appears to have fallen in love again, this time with a _ woman referred to as the _ Lady

Religious

Within two years, Catholic hopes for _ freedom evaporated

16

Years after his death, his friends collected his plays, including _ that had not previously been published, as a tribute

Over 150

_ new schools were opened in Elizabeth's reign, making this generation the most literate in history