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Use the Silver Lake RHS electronic library catalog to locate books on Shakespeare. Browse the reference section in the 800s for literary reference sources.

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Shakespeare Search

1. When was William Shakespeare born?              When did he die?
   
2. Where was he born?                                                     Who were his parents?
   
3. Whom did he marry?                How old was he?          How old was she?
   
4. Name their three children.
5. What is New Place?
6. Identify the Dark Lady.
7. Name the rulers of England during Shakespeare’s life?
8. What did Shakespeare leave in his will to his daughter?      To his wife?
9. List three ways s Shakespearean theater is different from a modern one.   
   
    Three ways different than a Greek theater.
   
10. What were the names of his two acting companies?
11. Name four other actors in Shakespeare’s company.
12. What is a playwright?  
13. Name four general types of plays Shakespeare wrote.
14. What is a repertory company?
15. Name several sources that Shakespeare used when writing his plays?
16. What is the difference between a quarto and a folio?
17. What was the First Folio?
18. How many plays did Shakespeare write?
19. What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
20. What is a couplet?
21. What is a blank verse?
22. Name four famous Elizabethan theaters.
23. What does it mean to be drawn and quartered?
24. What is the “Black Death”?
25. What is a foil as applied to characters in works of literature?
26. Where does Romeo and Juliet take place?  When?
27. In what plays do we find the quotations?  Use Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

“True love never did run smooth.”

“I’ll speak daggers to her, but use none.”

“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”

“What is a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Though this madness, yet there is method in’t.”

28. Write the following passage in every day English.

            “The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,
She is the hopeful lady of my earth.
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart.
My will to her consent is but a part.”

Bonus:  Use Novelist Plus to find a fiction book that is a Shakespeare author read-a-like.