Shakespeare True or False Quiz

Shakespeare couldn’t spell and had awful handwriting.

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays are called Oliver, Cinderella and Pochahontas.

Shakespeare was born on 3rd March, 1971.

Shakespeare studied grammar, Latin, Greek, History, Arithmetic (Maths) and RE. He had to learn long passages by heart.

Shakespeare’s father was a glove-maker.

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.

Shakespeare was a toyboy! Shakespeare got married at the age of 17. Ann Hathaway, his wife, was 26.

Shakespeare studied word processing, knitting, aeronautics and cycling at school.

In Shakespeare’s day he had to start school at 6am and finish at 6pm and work on Saturdays!

His father was fined for making a dunghill outside his house. (A dunghill is the polite way of describing what we would

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.

William was the oldest of 6 surviving children

Shakespeare and his wife had twins called Hamnet and Judith.

William Shakespeare had 12 bothers and sisters.

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays are called A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night.

Shakespeare was born on 23rd April, 1564.

Shakespeare married a woman called Ivy Clare Fishpool.

Shakespeare and his wife had twins called Alfonso and Hortense.

We cannot be sure that his name was actually Shakespeare as his spelling was so bad.

Six months after he married, his wife gave birth to a baby girl.