Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Great Bard by trying our grueling Shakespeare Quiz:
1. When was Shakespeare born?
2. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?
3. Was Shakespeare ever in "love"?
4. Who said "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo"?
5. The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
a) King Lear
b) Richard II
c) Julius Caesar
d) Hamlet
6. Was Shakespeare born in...
a) Stratford-upon-Avon
b) London
c) Venice
d) New York
7. Was the Globe…
a) A Roman Amphitheater
b) An Elizabethan Theatre
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium
d) A famous map of the world 8. True or False: Was Shakespeare an actor as well as a poet and playwright?
9. True or False: Was the movie "Shakespeare in Love," a true story?
10. True or False: Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today?
11. Did Shakespeare invent words?
Answers to follow... Don't cheat!!
1. When was Shakespeare born?
2. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?
3. Was Shakespeare ever in "love"?
4. Who said "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo"?
5. The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
a) King Lear
b) Richard II
c) Julius Caesar
d) Hamlet
6. Was Shakespeare born in...
a) Stratford-upon-Avon
b) London
c) Venice
d) New York
7. Was the Globe…
a) A Roman Amphitheater
b) An Elizabethan Theatre
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium
d) A famous map of the world 8. True or False: Was Shakespeare an actor as well as a poet and playwright?
9. True or False: Was the movie "Shakespeare in Love," a true story?
10. True or False: Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today?
11. Did Shakespeare invent words?
Answers to follow... Don't cheat!!
Answers…
1. Shakespeare was born in 1564. He died in 1616.
2. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. One play called "Cardenio" has no written record today. Only 36 plays can be read today.
3. Shakespeare was in love. At age 18, he married the 26 year old Anne Hathaway. They were married the rest of Shakespeare's life…
4. From her balcony, Juliet famously said "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?," in "Romeo and Juliet".
5. (d) Hamlet uttered the famous words, "To be or not to be" in Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
6. (a) Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, just 5 miles from London.
7. (c) The Globe was an Elizabethan theatre, Shakespeare partially owned, where he performed many of his plays. A reconstruction exists today in the same suburb as the original in Southwark.
8. True. Shakespeare acted in his own plays before Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
9. False. There is no historical evidence for the romance occurring in the movie. It may have happened but Shakespeare was married at the time.
10. True.
11. Yes, he invented the word "assassination" amongst others.
1. Shakespeare was born in 1564. He died in 1616.
2. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. One play called "Cardenio" has no written record today. Only 36 plays can be read today.
3. Shakespeare was in love. At age 18, he married the 26 year old Anne Hathaway. They were married the rest of Shakespeare's life…
4. From her balcony, Juliet famously said "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?," in "Romeo and Juliet".
5. (d) Hamlet uttered the famous words, "To be or not to be" in Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
6. (a) Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, just 5 miles from London.
7. (c) The Globe was an Elizabethan theatre, Shakespeare partially owned, where he performed many of his plays. A reconstruction exists today in the same suburb as the original in Southwark.
8. True. Shakespeare acted in his own plays before Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
9. False. There is no historical evidence for the romance occurring in the movie. It may have happened but Shakespeare was married at the time.
10. True.
11. Yes, he invented the word "assassination" amongst others.
Insults
Find yourself tempted to say that effin word too often? Modern english is rather unimaginative when it comes to expletives, contenting itself with a paucity of four letter equivalents for the range of human distress.
Elizabethans took a delight with language, weaving together terms to form stinging phrases of wit. As a faire worker, these equivalents are not only fun, but don't make parents with children glare at you. You could say fie-(fye) or you could swear by God's teeth or wounds. As a tradesman, you might swear by your hammer or tongs, or any other object of untarnished purity. (Good Elizabethans would not, as a rule, swear by Odin's beard or similar heresy.) Should that eff-word be particularly required, the learned Elizabethan would employ the common verb swive. Humorous modern effects result from the application of terms such as pig farker, which of course means pig farmer and is not an insult at all.
To create your own curses, memorize some choice terms from the list below, two adjectives and a noun minimum per curse please.
Some samples:
Thou fawning tardy-gaited baggage... Thou venomed, fen-sucked mammet... Thou fobbing, weather-bitten, lewdster... Thou churlish, reeling-ripe, apple-john... Thou saucy, pox-marked, coxcomb...
Combine one word from each of the columns below prefaced with "Thou"...
Elizabethans took a delight with language, weaving together terms to form stinging phrases of wit. As a faire worker, these equivalents are not only fun, but don't make parents with children glare at you. You could say fie-(fye) or you could swear by God's teeth or wounds. As a tradesman, you might swear by your hammer or tongs, or any other object of untarnished purity. (Good Elizabethans would not, as a rule, swear by Odin's beard or similar heresy.) Should that eff-word be particularly required, the learned Elizabethan would employ the common verb swive. Humorous modern effects result from the application of terms such as pig farker, which of course means pig farmer and is not an insult at all.
To create your own curses, memorize some choice terms from the list below, two adjectives and a noun minimum per curse please.
Some samples:
Thou fawning tardy-gaited baggage... Thou venomed, fen-sucked mammet... Thou fobbing, weather-bitten, lewdster... Thou churlish, reeling-ripe, apple-john... Thou saucy, pox-marked, coxcomb...
Combine one word from each of the columns below prefaced with "Thou"...
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artless
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base-court
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apple-johnbaggage
barnacle bladder boar-pig bugbear bum-bailey canker-blossom clack-dish clotpole coxcomb codpiece death-token dewberry flap-dragon flax-wench flirt-gill foot-licker fustilarian giglet gudgeon haggard harpy hedge-pig horn-beast hugger-mugger jolthead lewdster lout maggot-pie malt-worm mammet measle minnow miscreant moldwarp mumble-news nut-hook pigeon-egg pignut puttock pumpion ratsbane scut skainsmate strumpet varlet vassal whey-face wagtail |
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