Introduction to Shakespeare

Go with me like good angels to my end.

Oh time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t' untie.

This above all: to thine own self be true/ And it must follow, as the night the day...

She's not forward, but modest as the dove.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow.

Shakespeare's father was a

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night/ Like softest music to attending ears.

Sweet mercy is nobility's badge.

Shakespeare was born in:

True or False: During the Renaissance period, plays were considered as works of high culture.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Oh heavy lightness, serious vanity/Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and Romeo.

At what time of the day were the plays performed during the Renaissance?

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

The new playhouse that Shakespeare's company built was called:

A malapropism is:

Which of Shakespeare's play is sometimes referred to as "the Scottish play"?

Shakespeare's only male child, Hamnet

True or False: Shakespeare's only ruling monarch during his time was Queen Elizabeth.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie/And young affection gapes to be his heir.

Blank verse is:

Shakespeare's first play performed at The Globe was

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

An "iamb" is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed a stressed syllable.

Dive, thoughts, down into my soul.

This supernatural soliciting/ Cannot be ill, cannot be good.

The 1580s were considered "the Lost Years" because

O cruel, irreligious piety!

Here's the smell of the blood still/All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand!

She speaks/Yet she says nothing.

Where was Shakespeare born?

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

Shakespeare is credited with adding how many words to the English language?

The theaters in London closed from June 1592 through June 1594 because

I will take my leave with many thousand thanks.

Where art thou, death?/Come hither, come!

Shakespeare's original acting company was called:

The plays were performed for:

There is a cliff, whose high and bending head/Looks fearfully into the confined deep

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel/I do not know where I am nor what I do.

Iambic pentameter is a type of meter that consists of

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Shakespeare married this person: