William Shakespeare

1. When and where was Shakespeare born?

2. What was his mother?

3. What was his father?

4. What kind of education did get?

5. How old was he when he married Anne Hathaway?

6. What did Anne Hathaway come from?

7. How many children did they have? Can you name them?

8. How many plays, poems and sonnets did he write?

9. What did he become in London?

10. When did he produce most of his known work?

11. When did the company build the Globe theatre?

12. What plays were performed in that theatre and what happened to that theatre?

13. When did Shakespeare retire and go to live in Stratford?

14. When did he die and where was he buried?

1When and where wsa Sh born? 1.William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare born? on the 23^rd of April, 1564.

2. What was his mother? 2. His mother Marry Arden was a daughter of a farmer.

3. What was his father? 3. His father John Shakespeare was a glove-maker.

4. What kind of education did he 4. He got a good classical education at

get? King’s New School (a kind of a grammar school).

5. How old was he when he 5. He was only 18, when he married

married Anne Hathaway? the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway.

6. What was she? 6. She was a daughter of a farmer.

7. How many children did they 7. They had three children: Susannah,

have? then twins –a son Hamnet and a daughter Judith.

8. How many plays, poems and sonnets did he write?8. 37 plays 154 sonnets 2 poems

9. What did he become in London? 9. He became an actor, a writer and a poet.

10. When did he produce most of 10.He produced most of his known

his known work? work between 1589 and 1613.

11. When did the company build 11.In 1599 a partnership of company

the Globe theatre? membership built the Globe theatre.

12. What plays were performed in 12. Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear

that theatre and what happened and Macbeth were performed there.

to that theatre? On the 29^th of June 1613 a cannon set fire

to the Globe and burned the theatre to the ground.

13. When did Shakespeare retire 13.In 1613 he stopped writing and

and go to live in Stratford? went to live in Stratford.

14. When did he die and where was 14. Shakespeare died on the 23^rd of April 1616

he buried? and was buried in the chancel of

the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.