Shakespeare

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Shakespeare

Shakespeare 

Parents: John Shakespeare & Mary Shakespeare (nee Arden).

Born: 23 April 1564, 

Hometown: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

Wife: Anne Hathaway.

Children: Susanna, Hamnet & Judith

Works: 37 plays (at least), 154 sonnets, many poems.

Died:  23 April 1616 

Can you name a play written by William Shakespeare?

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. Othello
4. Romeo and Juliette

"To be or not to be: that is the question"

1. Macbeth
2. Romeo and Juliette
3. Othello
4. Hamlet

"All the worlds a stage, and all men and women merely players"

1. As you like it
2. Hamlet
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Richard II

Shakespearean English 

He spoke early modern English (Elizabethan English)

it’s estimated that words invented by Shakespeare number as many as 1,700.

(accommodation, generous,critical, lonely)

"The privies be yon."

1. The toilets are over there
2. The privileges are yours
3. The peach pies are over there
4. The office is over there

"Kickie-wickie"

1. a newspaper
2. an affectionate term for a wife
3. a coward
4. a toddler

"Lubberwort"

1. a game
2. a specific kind of dress
3. a lazy person
4. a hopeful person

"Sirrah"

1. cheering
2. a young boy
3. a carriage
4. a pharmacy