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
