The life and work of William Shakespeare

Topic 1: Shakespeare's life

-> Click http://www.bardweb.net/bio.html to answer these questions.

1. How much do we know about Shakespeare's life? Why?
2. Where was Shakespeare born?
3. What date was he born on?
4. Did Shakespeare ever get married? If so, to whom?
5. Shakespeare established himself as an ____________ and _________________
6. What day did he die? What is unusual about this date?
7. What did he leave his wife in his will?

Tip: Why not have a look at the hands-on timeline?!

Topic 2: Religion

Click here http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/religion-elizabethan-england.htm to answer these questions

8. What were the two major religions in Elizabethan England?
9. Who dictated the favoured religion?
10. Which Monarchs reigned during this time? When?
11. Which religion did each Monarch believe in?
12. How did each Monarch treat those who did not follow their favoured religion?
13. Why did Queen Elizabeth I ban all performances of religious plays and stories? http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html

Topic 3: Elizabethan Period

-> Click here http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-period.htm to answer these questions

14. What was the Elizabethan Period?
15. When was this period?
16. What was the most significant invention of this time and why?
17. What did this lead to a renewed interest in?
18. During this period, what were unexplained events blamed on?
19. Why were people of this period superstitious?
20. What were the four humours and what were they associated with? Click here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zmjnb9q/revision/4

or here https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare/fourhumors.html

21. How was Elizabethan class structure maintained? click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2wp34j/revision/2 or here http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm for some ideas.
22. What was the Chain of Being and what did it uphold? Click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zmjnb9q/revision/2
23. What is the Rotae Fortuna? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_Fortunae

Topic 4: Education

-> Click here https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/education/boys.html  or here https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2017/08/25/children-school-work-early-modern-period/
24. What did education depend on?
25. What was the main purpose of schooling?
26. Why were students taught Latin?
27. What were girls from wealthy families educated in? Click here
29. Why were courses in university conducted in Latin? Click here http://elizabethan.org/compendium/54.html

Topic 5: Elizabethan Theatre

-> Click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2wp34j/revision/1  or here https://englishhistory.net/shakespeare/elizabethan-theatre/ or here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_cTCdkCAcc to answer these questions.
30. What was the general feeling towards plays during this period in time? What was the reputation of actors?
31. What was the name of the first theatre?
32. What was the name of them most famous theatre?
33. What happened to this theatre?
34. Where did people sit or not sit?
35. When did they have performances? Why?
36. How many women performed in these plays?
37. What did the audience do if they didn't like the performance?

Tipp: Have a look at the pop-up version of the Globe to get  an ever better idea of what it looked like!

Topic 6: Shakespeare's Influence

-> Click here http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html to answer these questions
38. What does Shakespeare's work provide reference for?
39. What were Shakespeare's histories a tribute to?
40. What was Shakespeare attempting to do with these tributes?

-> Click here to answer these questions.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z67fr82/revision/1
41. How many words did Shakespeare invent?

42. Shakespeare was very creative with words. Create insults Shakespeare-style: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html
43. Give an example of a word or phrase we have gotten from Shakespeare.
44. Name one poet who was influenced by Shakespeare.

Tip: Fancy a laugh? Click here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4

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