Shakespearean Basics

Heard by the audience, but not by other characters on stage.

A play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings.

What are the years of Shakespeare's life?

Spoken by lone character on stage, it tells inner thoughts.

Shakespeare's plays are divided into ________ acts.

Shakespeare's plays were usually performed in the ___________ Theatre.

The town in which Shakespeare was born is called_____________________.

Most lines in Shakespeare's plays are written in a metrical pattern called_____.

A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a patterned rhyme scheme.

Shakespeare's theatre company was called ___________ during the reign of Elizabeth.