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| When and where was Shakespeare born? |
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| April 23, 1564 in Stratford, England |
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| When did Shakespeare die? |
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| What are two names for the era that Shakespeare lived in? |
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- English Renaissance
- Elizabethan Era
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| What are Shakespeare's nicknames and what do they mean? |
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- Sweet Swan of Avon- Swans often swam on the Avon River in Stratford.
- Bard of Avon- Bard is just another name for a poet.
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| What is the name, nickname and location of Shakespeare's theatre? |
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- The Globe
- The Wooden O
- London
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| What is the threatre company that Shakespeare wrote? |
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| What was the special characteristic of drama at the time? |
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| Men always played women parts. |
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| What were sets and costumes like at the time? |
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| Sets were simple and costumes were decorated and complex. |
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| What were the Elizabethan beliefs about faith? |
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| People thought that the course of a person's life was determined by the star that they were born under. |
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| What were the three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote? |
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| Comedies, tragedies and histories. |
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| What were four plays that Shakespeare wrote? |
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| "Macbeth", "A Midsummer's Night Dream", "Hamlet" and "Richard III" |
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| What did Shakespeare write besides plays? |
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| 154 sonnets or serious poems. |
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| What is the controversy that surrounds Shakespeare's plays? |
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| People think that someone else wrote his plays because he led such an ordinary life, he never left England and only had a middle school education. |
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| What are some popular phrases that can be traced back to Shakespeare? |
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| "too much of a good thing", "pomp and circumstance" and "knock, knock! who's there?" |
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