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Section: _______________
Shakespeare in Our Time
1. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare was not of an ___________, but for ________ _________.
– Age, all time (1:46)
1. What is a soliloquy?
– Character spoke their thoughts aloud. (8:13)
1. What is an aside?
– Character spoke their thoughts to the audience (8:26)
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1. What were the people called who stood in front of the stage and were rowdy?
– Groundlings (8:43)
1. What was the name of the theater, built in 1599, which would premier his most famous
plays?
– The Globe (9:48)
1. After King James I took the throne, what name did he give to Shakespeare’s Company to
honor them?
– The Kings Men (9:59)
1. Name 3 of the ‘deepest feelings, worries and convictions people have always had’ which
Shakespeare used in his plays.
– Honor, courage, delirious love, bitter hatred, evil cunning (11:27)
1. From what play is the quote, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
– Hamlet (14:30)
1. What is one phrase, which Shakespeare coined, that you have heard before?
– The course of true love never did run smooth (17:10)
– Green-eyed monster
– A dish fit for the gods
– It was Greek to me
– A sorry sight
– Household words
– Brevity is the soul of wit
– To thine own self be true
– Full of sound and fury
Name: ____________________________________
Section: _______________
Shakespeare in Our Time
3. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare was not of an ___________, but for ________ _________.
9. What is a soliloquy?
11. What were the people called who stood in front of the stage and were rowdy?
12. What was the name of the theater, built in 1599, which would premier his most famous
plays?
13. After King James I took the throne, what name did he give to Shakespeare’s Company to
honor them?
15. Name 3 of the ‘deepest feelings, worries and convictions people have always had’ which
Shakespeare used in his plays.
16. From which play comes the quote, “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
17. What is one phrase, which Shakespeare coined, that you have heard before?