Name: ____________________________________

Section: _______________
Shakespeare in Our Time

1. Shakespeare is generally considered the _____________ _________________ _____

_____ _________.
– Greatest playwright who ever lived(0:33)

1. Where and during what time did Shakespeare live?

– England, Renaissance (0:45)

1. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare was not of an ___________, but for ________ _________.
– Age, all time (1:46)

1. In what year was Shakespeare born and where?

– 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon (5:32)

1. Who did Shakespeare marry at age 18?

– Anne Hathaway (5:45)

1. Why did Shakespeare move to London in 1592?

– Act & write plays (5:57)

1. What was considered “morally unacceptable” at that time?

– Women to appear on stage (7:48)

1. Who played the women’s roles on stage?

– Boys (7:51)

1. What is a soliloquy?
– Character spoke their thoughts aloud. (8:13)

1. What is an aside?
– Character spoke their thoughts to the audience (8:26)
–
1. What were the people called who stood in front of the stage and were rowdy?
– Groundlings (8:43)

1. What was the name of the theater, built in 1599, which would premier his most famous
plays?
– The Globe (9:48)
1. After King James I took the throne, what name did he give to Shakespeare’s Company to
honor them?
– The Kings Men (9:59)

1. What year did Shakespeare die?

– 1660 (10:12)

1. Name 3 of the ‘deepest feelings, worries and convictions people have always had’ which
Shakespeare used in his plays.
– Honor, courage, delirious love, bitter hatred, evil cunning (11:27)

1. From what play is the quote, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
– Hamlet (14:30)

1. What is one phrase, which Shakespeare coined, that you have heard before?
– The course of true love never did run smooth (17:10)
– Green-eyed monster
– A dish fit for the gods
– It was Greek to me
– A sorry sight
– Household words
– Brevity is the soul of wit
– To thine own self be true
– Full of sound and fury

1. What type of rhythm does Iambic Pentameter have?

– 5 beats (18:15)

1. When were most of Shakespeare’s works printed, and by whom?

– After he died by colleagues in theater world (19:43)

1. How do Shakespeare’s words live on?

– Through people (21:23), read, listen or speak the words

Name: ____________________________________
 Section: _______________
Shakespeare in Our Time

1. Shakespeare is generally considered the _____________ _________________ _____

_____ _________.

2. Where and during what time did Shakespeare live?

3. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare was not of an ___________, but for ________ _________.

4. In what year was Shakespeare born and where?

5. Who did Shakespeare marry at age 18?

6. Why did Shakespeare move to London in 1592?

7. What was considered “morally unacceptable” at that time?

8. Who played the women’s roles on stage?

9. What is a soliloquy?

10. What is an aside?

11. What were the people called who stood in front of the stage and were rowdy?

12. What was the name of the theater, built in 1599, which would premier his most famous
plays?
13. After King James I took the throne, what name did he give to Shakespeare’s Company to
honor them?

14. What year did Shakespeare die?

15. Name 3 of the ‘deepest feelings, worries and convictions people have always had’ which
Shakespeare used in his plays.

16. From which play comes the quote, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”

17. What is one phrase, which Shakespeare coined, that you have heard before?

18. What type of rhythm does Iambic Pentameter have?

19. When were most of Shakespeare’s works printed, and by whom?

20. How do Shakespeare’s words live on?