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What is the main difference between a Shakespearean comedy and a Shakespearean tragedy?
There is no real difference.
A comedy is sad while a tragedy is a happy story.
A comedy starts off funny and ends badly.
comedy- happy ending. Tragedy- downfall of a character
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Where was William Shakespeare born?
Stratfort-Upon-Avon
Oxford
London
Snitterfield
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What was the form of English that Shakespeare wrote his plays?
Middle English
Old English
Early Modern English
Really Modern English
4
Which type of play is
Romeo and Juliet
?
Tragedy
Comedy
None of the above
History
5
What did William Shakespeare write?
plays, songs, and riddles
sonnets, plays, and poems
plays, jokes, obituaries
only plays
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When was Shakespeare born?
1582
1564
2012
1616
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Where did Shakespeare live for most of his life?
Verona
America
Sicily
London
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Who played the female roles in Shakespeare's plays?
women
young men/boys
children
teenage girls
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What disease outbreak caused all of the theaters to be closed down between 1593 and 1594?
tuberculosis
the plague
none of the above
the pox
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Who did Shakespeare marry?
Anita Hall
Sussana Hall
Anne Hathaway
Mary Queen of the Scots
