1. How much do we know about Shakespeare's life? Why? Not much, he did not let much information, we just know what is found in his works and some church papers.
2. Where was Shakespeare born?  Stratford-upon-Avon
3. What date was he born on?  Abril 23, 1564
4. Did Shakespeare ever get married? If so, to whom? Yes, Anne Hathaway
5. Shakespeare established himself as an     actor    and _playwright_
6. What day did he die? What is unusual about this date? April 23, 1616, it was his birthday
7. What did he leave his wife in his will?  "My second best bed."

8. What were the two major religions in Elizabethan England? Catholic and Protestant
9. Who dictated the favored religion? Reigning Monarchs
10. Which Monarchs reigned during this time? When? King and queen
11. Which religion did each Monarch believe in? Queen Mary was catholic and Elizabeth was protestant
12. How did each Monarch treat those who did not follow their favored religion? Mary burned alive everyone from a different religion, as Mary believed everyone should believe what they wanted without fear.
13. Why did Queen Elizabeth I ban all performances of religious plays and stories? Because she wanted to stop violence over religion

14. What was the Elizabethan Period? The age of new ideas and new thinking
15. When was this period? Renaissance
16. What was the most significant invention of this time and why? The printing press, it was a tool made for increasing knowledge and learning
17. What did this lead to a renewed interest in? The Supernatural
18. During this period, what were unexplained events blamed on? Witches
19. Why were people of this period superstitious? Some people already knew too much about witch, ghosts and supernatural, this make believe in superstitious and supernatural
20. What were the four humours and what were they associated with? Blood, bile, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. It was associated with four temperaments, choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic

21. How was Elizabethan class structure maintained? Establishing girls education and overall education mostly the best education (private) very expensive, this so only wealthy would send their children there and will remain the same class structure.
22. What was the Chain of Being and what did it uphold? “Everything in the world has its own place” No matter what you do, you cannot make your way up in the chain. You are all that you are born with, for the rest of your life, no matter what you do to try and change it

23. What is the Rotae Fortuna? The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls.

24. What did education depend on? Financial standing and social class
25. What was the main purpose of schooling? Teach children the appropriate behaviors for their social class
26. Why students were taught Latin? It was the language of the educated people throughout Europe
27. What were girls from wealthy families educated in? Private schools

29. Why were courses in university conducted in Latin? Because it was the language of international affairs and they said if people wanted to make their way in the world, they had to learn Latin

30. What was the general feeling towards plays during this period in time? Authorities didn’t allow them, so they opened them where they wouldn’t notice
31. What was the name of the first theatre? The Theatre
32. What was the name of them most famous theatre? The Globe
33. What happened to this theatre? During a performance, a cannon was fired and it caught the roof on fire, so the whole building burned down
34. Where did people sit or not sit? Most people stood in an open pit in front of the stage, but rich people sat beside the stage

35. When did they have performances? Why? In the afternoon because there was no artificial lighting
36. How many women performed in these plays? No women; men would play their parts
37. What did the audience do if they didn't like the performance? They would start talking loudly to show they weren’t interested
38. What does Shakespeare's work provide reference for? Life in his time
39. What were Shakespeare's histories a tribute to? British Monarchy and to Britain herself
40. What was Shakespeare attempting to do with these tributes? Paying homage to Elizabeth and England
41. How many words did Shakespeare invent? He invented around 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes.
42. Give an example of a word or phrase we have gotten from Shakespeare. Compromise, circumstantial, or gossip
43. Name one poet who was influenced by Shakespeare. Ben Jonson