William Shakespeare Introductory Notes

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What are the eight years between 1585 and 1592 known as?

"Lost Years"

What would Shakespeare receive in royaltes per week for Othello?

$25,000

How old were boy actors playing femal roles?

10-18

Where was Stratford?

100 miles NW of London

Juliet is nearly

14

How long is a Shakespearian sonnet?

14 lines

When was Arthur Brooke's work published?

1562

What period of time is little known about Shakespeare?

1585 and 1592

When did Hamnet die and at what age?

1596 at 11

When did King James I come into power?

1603

What by and when was the Globe Theater destroyed?

1613 during a fire

When was the Globe rebuilt?

1640

When were women permitted on stage?

1660

When did Shakespeare's last descendant die?

1670

How old was Shakespeare when he married?

18

According to the Chorus of the prologue, how long does the performance last?

2 hours

How many people from 1599 to 1613 attended Shakespeare's plays?

2,000-3,000

What did the wealthy Shakespeare purchase?

2nd largest home in Stratford, coat of arms, 100 acres of farm land

How many stories was the Globe?

3

What number child was Shakespeare and out of how many?

3 of 8

How many times did the black death shut down the theater?

3 times

How many theaters were there in London after Shakespeare's death in 1616?

30

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

37

How old is Romeo and Juliet?

400 years

How many acts do all of Shakespeare's plays have?

5

At what age did Shakespeare die?

52

How many actors were in each troupe?

7

How much older was Ann Hathaway than Shakespeare?

8 years

How many groundlings were there usually?

800

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearian sonnet?

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Whom did Shakespeare marry?

Ann Hathaway

Whom did Shakespeare marry? How old was Shakespeare? How old was Ann?

Ann Hathaway; 18; 26

When was Shakespeare born?

April 23, 1564

When did Shakespeare die?

April 23, 1616

When did Shakespeare leave Stratford?

Around 1584

"He was not of an age, but for all time" were words spoken by whom?

Ben Johnson

Who is the original speaker of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?

Chorus

Who ruled English during Shakespeare's time?

Elizabeth I

Who was Thomas Coryate?

English traveler

What do the last two line of the prologue request of the audience?

Give the stage their full attention so they can explain the story

What is Shakespeare's longest play?

Hamlet

What is Shakespeare's most complex play?

Hamlet

Who was "Hamlet" named after?

Hamnet

What do Shakespeare's birth and death dates reveal?

He died on his birthday at age 52

Why did Charles Ii allow women to perform?

He loved theater and women

What made Shakespeare a popular writer?

He put in his plays what people enjoyed watching

How did Shakespeare's father, John, earn the status of "gentleman"?

He was a magistrate

What does one story suggest happened between 1585 and 1592?

He was caught stealing a deer from Sir Thomas Lucy

What is believed about Shakespeare's marriage?

He was not happily married

Why did Shakespeare treat Catholics with respect?

He was taught to respect religion

What play was being performed when the Globe was burned?

Henry VIII

Shakespeare died without seeing what?

His plays officially published

Shakespeare wrote "Blessed be the man that spares these stones and cursed be the man that moves my bones." Where can these be found today?

His tombstone

Where is Shakespeare buried?

Holy Trinity Church in Stratford

When were all plays performed?

In the afternoon between 2 and 5 pm

How was the play received?

It was popular from the start; finally received acceptance from his father

Who are Shakespear's parents?

John and Mary Shakespeare

How is Lord Capulet like John Shakespeare?

John wanted to marry rich. Lord Capulet wanted his daughter to marry rich

How does Shakespeare's family parallel the families is Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet is the same age as Susanna. Understand grief of their deaths because Hamnet died the year the play was written

What was Shakespeare's first play?

Julius Caesar

What are some of Shakespeare's other masterpieces besides Romeo and Juliet?

Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth

What did Shakespeare study at grammar school?

Latin grammar and Latin literature

Where did Shakespeare attend school?

Latin grammar school

Where did Shakespeare move after his twins were born?

London

Where did Shakespeare move after leaving Stratford?

London

Where was Shakespeare's theater's second location?

London's gambling district

Who were the "penny knaves"

London's tradesmen, apprentices, fishwives

What did Shakespeare join by 1954?

Lord Chamberlain's Men

What is Shakespeare's shortest play?

MacBeth

What were troubles happening in England after King Henry VIIIs death?

Queen Mary prosecuted anglicans

What moral does Arthur Brook preach?

Romeo and Juliet had to die because they broke laws and married unwisely against their parents' wishes

What is the only way for the Capulets and Montagues to end their feud?

Romeo and Juliet's deaths

The most famous writer in the world

Shakespeare

What is the prologue in Romeo Juliet?

Shakespearian sonnet

Where was Shakespeare born?

Stratford

Why did Shakespeare choose to live in London?

Stratford felt too small for him

Who are Shakespeare's children?

Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith

Which literary work has been translated more than Shakespeare's?

The Bible

What was Shakespeare' theater?

The Globe

What event happened in 1613 that changed Shakespeare?

The Globe Theater burned

in 1603, what was King Chamberlain's Men changed to?

The King's Men

What was Shakespeare's last play?

The Tempest

What did Hamnet's death mean?

The family name would be carried on no more

Why did audiences during Shakespeare's time already know his plays before seeing them?

They were based on other author's works

Where and when did Thomas Coryate travel?

Venice in 1608

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?

Verona, Italy in the 1300s

Before James Burbage's theater, where were plays performed?

Wherever a space was available for rent

What did Shakespeare do to Sir Thomas Lucy? What were probably the repercussions?

Wrote a "scandalous ballad" about him which may have caused him to leave Stratford

In Ireland, Romeo and Juliet represent what?

a Catholic and a Protestant

How was London like Verona?

a busy thriving city where violence quickly spread

Who was old Henry Hunks

a favorite bear for bear-baiting

What is the basic shape of The Globe?

a large, round (polygonal) building

What type of writing was Arthur Brooke's work?

a long narrative poem

Who supported the actor's company?

a nobleman

How much did the people who stood in the pit of the Globe pay?

a penny

What was Shakespeare in 1592?

a recognized and well-known actor in London

What did Shakespeare's theater represent?

a wooden o

Why did Shakespeare disappoint his father?

acting was not a respectful profession; his marriage was not pleasing

What did Shakespeare become by 1952?

actor and playwright

What did Shakespeare begin a career as when he first came to London?

an actor and playwright

Why was Lord Chamberlain so important?

arranged entertainment for Queen Elizabeth

What church and legal documents are included that describe Shakespeare's personal life?

baptismal registration, marriage license, real estate transaction records

Use of blood

battle scenes (pigs blood and guts)

What was written very scarcely during Shakespeare's time?

biographies

Shakespeare's plays are writin in

blank verse in iambic pentameter

What was bear-baiting popular?

cheap, exciting, easy to participate in

All of Shakespeare's grandchildren died

childless

What did Shakespeare's early life come mostly from?

church and legal documents

Where does most of Shakespeare's personal life come from?

church and legal documents

Who performed in the earlier plays about Bible stories?

clergy and choir boys

What did a white flag at the Globe represent?

comedy

Why was Shakespeare unpopular?

critics said that drama was not an artform

What is the proscenium stage?

curtains on the inner stage

What was Shakespeare fascinated with?

death

To act or to do

drama

From what did Shakespeare die?

drank too much, ate too much, caught a fever

What "batch" of plays was Romeo and Juliet written in?

early plays between 1594 and 1596

One word that describes the costumes of Shakespeare's plays

elaborate

What were trapped doors in the floors used for?

entrances and exits of ghosts and descents into hell

When did a new play begin?

every three weeks

What two issues came up when someone began to write about Shakespeare's life?

facts were no longer known, false, or inaccurate; there were no relatives of his family line still alive

How would someone know what genre of play was being performed at the Globe?

flag color

Everyone would _____ to see Shakespeare's plays.

flock

In line 5 of the prologue, why are the families called "foes"?

foes means enemy

What were the people who stood in the pit of the Globe called?

groundlings

Why was Shakespeare popular?

his plays has something for all of his viewers

What happened to James Burbage's theater in 1599?

his theater was torn down

What did Shakespeare usually write about?

historical subjects

What did a red flag at the Globe represent?

history

What did Shakespeare's theater influence?

how plays were written

Romeo and Juliet are caught up in an

idealized, almost unreal, passionate love

What is a prologue?

introduction to a story

Why is Romeo and Juliet still popular today?

it tells us a lot about human nature and Shakespeare

Why was there no need for stage lighting?

it was still bright out

What did Shakespeare do from 1954 to the end of his career?

joined the acting group Lord Chamberlain's Men

What did Shakespeare not leave us?

journals or letter

Who was Sir Thomas Lucy?

justice of the peace and member of Parliment

What were Shakespeare's stages set by?

language

In Shakespeare's time, what did biographies mostly record?

lives of kings

Romeo and Juliet are in love with

love

Why is Stratford-on-Avon in the 1500s a "tightly knit medieval town"?

magistrates kept close watch on everyone, fixed prices of goods, monitored church habits, and controlled gambling and would not let dogs go unmuzzled

Use of the stage

main acting

Since they are victims of fate, according to Shakespeare, what do Romeo and Juliet do?

make decisions that lead to their disaster

What gender were all actors?

male

Six characteristics of an actor of Shakespeare's day

male, member of a company, fencer, singer, dancer, acrobat

Where did the male only custom originate?

medieval drama

When the Chorus of the prologue speaks on . stage directly to the audience, what is it known as?

monologue

What does Shakespeare do away with when writing Romeo and Juliet?

moralizing

Who also had a hand in Romeo and Juliet's tragic ending?

more important other characters

What must you realize to understand "star-crossed"?

most people in Shakespeare's time believed in astrology

How long after Shakespeare's life was it until someone began to write about his life?

nearly 100 years

What has recently occured between the Montagues and Capulets?

new violence

Did Shakespeare have formal college education?

no

Why was the constant change of plays bad?

no rehearsal time

Why were plays an important source of amusement?

no tv, no movies, no radio, etc.

Why is Shakespeare a "rather shadowy figure"?

not much is known about him

What is the cost of bear-baiting?

one penny

How do we learn about Shakespeare from Romeo and Juliet?

parallels to his own life

What are Romeo and Juliet called star-crossed lovers?

people believed highly in astrology and star-crossed means ill-fated

Why were the plays in the afternoon?

people had a lot of free time

What were the two stages of the Globe?

platform stage (lower) and upper stage (balcony)

What did Shakespeare leave us?

poems and plays

An introduction to a literary work

prologue

What was the inner stage of The Globe called?

proscenium

What did Sir Thomas Lucy do to Shakespeare as a result of stealing a deer?

prosecuted him

Three enemies to the theater

puritans, city fathers, black death

How does the feud in Romeo and Juliet parallel that of the English royal family at the time?

religious differences in the family = feud in the play

What did Shakespeare do by 1612?

retired to Stratford

What are the last two lines of a Shakespearian sonnet called?

rhyming couplet

Why did the theaters close between 1952 and 1954?

riots and the plague

In the Globe Theater, there was no

roof

Very little of what was used in Shakespeare's play?

scenary

What is bear-baiting?

shackled bear would be attacked by dogs and people would be on which dog would die last

What did Shakespeare's father do?

shopkeeper, justice of the peace, high bailiff, mayor

What three insights does Romeo and Juliet tell us?

society, time it was written, Shakespeare

The words "Enter Chorus" are the what?

stage directions

In line 6 of the prologue, What are Romeo and Juliet referred to as?

star-crossed lovers

What are Shakespeare's plays based on?

stories already known to his audiences

Where did Shakespeare get the idea for Romeo and Juliet?

story by Arthur Brook in 1562 called the Tragical History of Romeus

What did people in Shakespeare's time believe about astrology?

the course of their lives were determined by the placement of the stars when they were born

Why was makeup important to actors?

they are all men; determined status

How did royals feel about Shakespeare's plays?

thoroughly enjoyed them

How many children did Shakespeare and Ann have?

three

How tall was The Globe?

three stories

How did the groundlings cause trouble?

throw things, talk loudly, play cards, pick fights, through rotten eggs, throw veggies

What did Shakespeare use to build the Globe?

timbers from Burbage's theater

Why did Shakespeare leave school?

to apprentice a Stratford tradesman because his father was having financial problems

What did a black flag at the Globe represent?

tragedy

When would Shakespeare return to Stratford?

two or three days during Lent when the theaters were closed

What does Shakespeare present Romeo and Juliet as?

two star-crossed lovers doomed to disaster by fate

Why did Shakespeare write Romeo and Juliet?

unhappy marriage

What is the relationship between the Montagues and Capulet's?

very long feud; both are noble and high class, wealthy

Even though they are star-crossed, what doesn't Shakespeare make Romeo and Juliet?

victims of fate

Who were the "university wits"?

want-to-be poets in London

Why was Coryate astonished while in Venice?

women were performing on the stage

What did Shakespeare do while the theaters were closed between 1952 and 1954?

write and publish poems

As co-owner of the Globe Theater, what did Shakespeare do?

write plays, hire actors, pay bills

What did Shakespeare become very wealthy doing after King James I came to power?

writing poems and plays

Do the Capulets and Montagues ever end their feud? Which line of the prologue states this?

yes, line 8

Romeo is a

young man (16-17)


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