5 October 2011

William Shakespeare

Let's find out about Shakespeare's life. Answer these questions looking for information in the given sites.


William Shakespeare


1. When was he born?


2. Where was he born?


3. Who was Shakespeare's wife?


4. How many children did they have?


5. When did he die?


6. Why is the World Book Day celebrated on April 23rd -except for the UK and Ireland?


http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm


http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk


http://www.stratford.co.uk/index.asp


The Globe


6. What is The Globe?


7. When was The Globe built?


8. What happened to the theatre in 1.613?


9. Name three other theatres in London in 16th century.


http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html


Shakespeare's works


10. Name three of Shakespeare's comedies.


11. Name three of Shakespeare's tragedies.


12. Name three of Shakespeare's histories.


13. What where the names of King Lear's daughters?


http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/shakespeare.html


http://www.mundofree.com/seronoser/tausiet/shakespeare/shakespeare.htm





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


14. What were the two major religions in Elizabethan England?


15. Who dictated the favoured religion?


16. Which Monarchs reigned during this time? When?


17. Which religion did each Monarch believe in?


18. How did each Monarch treat those who did not follow their favoured religion?
19. Why did Queen Elizabeth I ban all performances of religious plays and stories?http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.ht

Education Click here http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/boys.html 
20. What did education depend on?
21. What was the main purpose of schooling?
22. Why were students taught Latin?                            
23. What were girls from wealthy families educated in? Click herehttp://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/girls.html  
24. Why were courses in university conducted in Latin? Click herehttp://elizabethan.org/compendium/54.html




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

25. What was the Elizabethan Period?

26. When was this period?

27. What was the most significant invention of this time and why?

28. What did this lead to a renewed interest in?

29. During this period, what were unexplained events blamed on?

30. Why were people of this period superstitious?
Click here http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm to answer this question


 31. What were the four humours and what were they associated with?  http://classweb.gmu.edu/rnanian/humours.html
32. How was Elizabethan class structure maintained?




33. What was the Chain of Being and what did it uphold? Click here  http://schoolworkhelper.net/2010/08/the-chain-of-being-shakespeare/        
34. What is the Rotae Fortuna?    Click http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1535026

 Shakespeare's Influence Click here http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html to answer these questions
34. What does Shakespeare's work provide reference for?
35. What were Shakespeare's histories a tribute to?
36. What was Shakespeare attempting to do with these tributes?
Click here to answer these questions.
37. How many words did Shakespeare invent?
38. Give an example of a word or phrase we have gotten from Shakespeare.
39. Name one poet who was influenced by Shakespeare.
Click here for more words or phrases from Shakespeare. Write down two that you know and explain what they mean.

We all know that Shakespeare's language is a little different from ours--hey, it was written a few hundred years ago. Click on this link to be insulted "professionally." (which we will see plenty of in the play)!
      


   

                                            

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  1. Mati6 October 2011 at 06:33

    1. William Shakespeare was born the 24th April 1564.
    2. In Stratford-Upon-Avon.
    3.Anne Hathaway.
    4.Three.
    5.Died 23th April of 1616.
    6.Because of Shakespare´s death.
    7.The Globe was the theatre were Shakespare´s plays were played.
    8. A fire burned it down.
    9. Chicago, Illinois and Open Air Shakespare´s theatres.
    10. As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost.
    11. Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus.
    12. King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1.
    13. Gonerin, Regan and Cordelia.
    14. Protestant ad Catholic.
    15. Marthin Luther.
    16. Edward VI and Mary I.
    17. Edward VI was Catholic and Mary I was Protestant.
    18. They persecuted the ones who believed in the other religion.
    19. So she wouldn´t declare herself protestant or catholic.
    20. Education depended on money and influence.
    21. Manners and etiquette.
    22. Because courses in universities were in Latin.
    23. They were educated at their homes.
    24. Because Latin is the international affair language.
    25. The Elizabethan period was the time when Elizabeth I ruled.
    26. 1558–1603.
    27. The telescope
    28. Interest in navigation was renewed.
    29. Many superstitions during the Elizabethan period dated back to traditions and beliefs from much earlier times.
    30. Because they believed in witches and other kind of things.
    31. The four humours were Air, Water, Fire and Earth.
    32. Nobles, middle class and peasants.
    33. The great chain of being, is aChristian concept detailing a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by the Christian God.
    34. The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate.
    34. Shakespare said “everything in the world has its own place”

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