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Answer the following questions in numbered form, with topic headings, and complete sentences in a Word document. Please use MLA heading and format.

=PART ONE - Due Monday, April 19=

Shakespeare's Life



 * 1) What day do we consider to be Shakespeare's day of birth and how do we know it?
 * 2) Where was Shakespeare born?
 * 3) Describe his upbringing and education.
 * 4) Who did Shakespeare marry, and how many children did he have?
 * 5) What were the four types of plays he wrote?
 * 6) Where were his plays performed and by whom?
 * 7) Besides writing plays, what other skills made Shakespeare a "jack of all trades?"
 * 8) What did Shakespeare's great financial gain in 1605 allow him the time to do?
 * 9) What tragic family event occurred around the same time as his writing of Romeo & Juliet?
 * 10) What two plays are considered Shakespeare's greatest or most famous?
 * 11) When and where did Shakespeare die?
 * 12) Why do we still read his works today? (Hint: think of theme)
 * 13) Find several famous quotations that originated in Shakespeare's works. Mention the works from which they come.

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The Elizabethan Theater [[image:wooden_o.jpg caption="The Globe Theatre"]]
<span style="color: #000066; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Globe Theater <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Globe Theater] [|Theater] [|More Theater] [|Actors] [|The Meaning of Colors]
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Where were most theaters built? (in or out of the city)? Why? Why is the Globe Theater so famous?
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What time of day did performances take place? How was the public notified about performances?
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Who played the female roles and why?
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What type of scenery and props were used?
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What were the costumes like?
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What other skills did actors need besides acting ability?
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What was the cost of standing room at the Globe?
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Who was Richard Burbage?
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Who were the King's Men or Chamberlain's Men?
 * 10) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Identify:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Pit
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Groundling
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Heavens
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Trap door
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tiring house

= PART 2, DUE Thursday, April 22 =

The Plays & Sonnets of Shakespeare
<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0000ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespeare's works <span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What three categories of plays did Shakespeare write? 2. List the title of one play from each category.

Literary Terms Relating to Shakespeare
<span style="color: #000066; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Define all of the terms. Please also give an example for those with "EX" after the term. [|More Definitions]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**prose**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**poetry**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**sonnet (Elizabethan) EX**
 * **meter**
 * **iamb EX**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**iambic pentameter EX**
 * **blank verse**
 * **soliloquy EX**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**foreshadowing**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**apostrophe EX**
 * **simile EX**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**metaphor EX**
 * **rhyme scheme EX**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**rhythm**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**alliteration**
 * **assonance**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**subtext**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**oxymoron**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**hyperbole**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**irony (dramatic)**
 * **irony (verbal)**
 * **allusion**
 * **motif**
 * **pun**
 * **personification EX**
 * **couplet EX**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times;">[|Definitions] <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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Shakespearean Insults

 * 1) Go to the [|Shakespearean Insult Kit] and create your own insult. How you do it is to start with the word "Thou." Next, take a phrase/word from the first column to begin your insult, continue by adding something from the second column, and finish it up royally with something from the third column. Type your own personal Shakespearean insult in the table below. [Thou + choice from column 1 + choice from column 2 + choice from column 3 = your custom made insult].