Shakespeare True / False (Year 7)

Shakespeare was born on 23^rd April, 1564.

Shakespeare married a woman called Ivy Clare Fishpool

Shakespeare and his wife had twins called Alfonso and Hortense

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.

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

William Shakespeare had 12 brothers and sisters.

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

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

William was the oldest of 6 surviving children.

Shakespeare studied grammar, Latin, Greek, History, Maths and Religion. He had to learn long passages by heart.

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

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare died on his birthday aged 52.

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

When he died he left everything to his cat

Shakespeare and his wife had twins called Hamnet and Judith.

Shakespeare was born on 3rd March, 1971.

Shakespeare couldn’t spell and had awful handwriting.

Shakespeare’s father was a glove-maker.

We cannot be sure that his name was actually spelled Shakespeare. It could have been spelled differently.

Shakespeare wrote a play called The Taming of the Shrew in 1594

Shakespeare was a toyboy! Shakespeare got married at the age of      18. Ann Hathaway, his wife, was 26.

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

1.When Shakespeare died he left his wife the second-best bed in the      house and nothing else!