Interactive Shakespearean Scavenger Hunt

Shakespeare’s Life
1. How many plays did Shakespeare write?

2. How many sonnets did he write?

3. When were the plays performed and published? In which theater ?

4. What was life like for William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan era?

5. What are the known facts about the great Stratford Bard? List five facts.

6. What of William the actor, and what is known about his fellow actors and their theatre?

7. What facts are known about the Elizabethan Stratford Playwright and his family? Who is Anne?

8. What is the Bubonic Plague? What were the effects?

9. What exactly was the 'First Folio'? Is his picture an accurate portrait?

10. Why is there so much controversy about the biography of the playwright?

11. What is the so-called Identity Problem about? What facts are available?

Romeo and Juliet
1. Find the year in which the first Romeo and Juliet may have been written.

2. Identify two types of endings presented in Romeo and Juliet.

3. In what year did the first female actresses appear on stage?

4. What is the Globe?

5. What were the best seats in the house at the original Globe Theatre?

6.Why, in Shakespeare's days, may we see the words "players exit"?

7. When was the original Romeo and Juliet movie produced?

8. Who are the two major actors in the 1993 version of Romeo and Juliet?

9. Visit the fair city of Verona, Italy. Write a short blurb describing it.

10. Copy the first four lines from Juliet's famous quotation, "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo." Hint: It is in Act II, scene 2.

 

11. Learn how to write Shakespearean insults. List five.

 

12. Play Shakespeare games!!