NAME: PERIOD
Shakespeare Webquest
DIRECTIONS: Using the websites provided, answer the following questions. Write your answers on this document.
Please use your time wisely and stay on task.
Shakespeare’s Life www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/stratford.html
1. In what city was Shakespeare baptized?
2. When was he baptized?
3. Who were his parents? How many siblings total did Shakespeare have?
4. Which siblings survived into adulthood?
5. Where did Shakespeare possibly receive his education? What did he learn there?
6. Whom did Shakespeare marry and when? Write the names of any children they may have had and tell when the children were born.
7. What happens between 1587 and 1592? How do scholars refer to these years?
8. What do people think Shakespeare was doing during this time?
9. What happened in 1596?
10 When did Shakespeare return to Stratford?
11. When was he buried? How old was he?
12. What was given to whom in his last will?
13. When did Shakespeare’s wife die?
Shakespeare’s work
www.folger.edu/content/Discover-Shakespeare/Shakespeares-works/The-Plays
14. How many plays do we generally consider to be written by Shakespeare?
15. How are Shakespeare’s plays generally divided?
16. Name 5 comedies.
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17. Name 5 histories.
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18. Name 5 tragedies.
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Shakespeare’s Theatre
www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-globe-theatre.htm
19. What was the first “proper theatre” in London? When was it built? Where? Who owned it?
20. Where were the plays performed before theatres?
21. Name 2 other theatres and when they were built.
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22. Which is the most famous theatre? When was it built?
23. Who built the Globe? Where was it located? (BE SPECIFIC)
24. How many people could the Globe Theatre hold?
25. What other activities was the Globe Theatre known for?
www.bardstage.org/globe-theatre-facts.htm
26. The Globe Theatre was built in a similar style to what famous place? What style of architecture is this?
27. Where did the builders get the materials for the Globe Theatre? How long did it take to build it? Why did they have to leave their last theatre?
28. How many times did the Globe have to close? Why? What years?
29. What happened to the original Globe Theatre? When? When was the second one built?
30. What is the motto of the Globe Theatre (both English & Latin)?
31. Who played the female roles? Why? What led to their early deaths?
32. What colors were the different flags flown over the Globe & what did they represent?
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33. What happened to the second Globe Theatre? When did it happen? Who was responsible, and what was put up in its place?
The Authorship Question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question
34. What is the “Shakespeare Authorship Question”?
35. When was Shakespeare’s authorship of the plays first questioned?
36. Why do some question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays?
37. How many candidates have so far been proposed?
38. Was Shakespeare’s authorship questioned during his lifetime? Why or why not?
39. Anti-Stratfordians rely on what has been called a ______.
What is this?