What do you know about Shakespeare?
Question 1:
• True or False:Shakespeare was American.
Question 1:
• FALSE
• Shakespeare was born in Britain in 1564.
Question 2:
True or False:Shakespeare only wrote plays.
Question 2:
FALSE! Shakespeare wrote
sonnets (a type of poem), narrative poems,
and plays
Question 3:
• Shakespeare was born in…– A. London, England
– B. Williamsburg, Virginia– C. Stratford-upon-Avon, England
– D. Dublin, Ireland
Question 3:
Shakespeare was born in…
C. Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Question 4:
True or False:• Shakespeare only wrote tragedies.
Question 4:
FALSE!• Shakespeare wrote tragedies,
histories, and comedies.Some examples:
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, Henry VIII is a history, and
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy.
Question 5:
• True or false: – Shakespeare was the first person to use the
following phrases:• A dish fit for the gods• As dead as a doornail• In a pickle• Vanish into thin air
Question 5:
• TRUE! We still use many of his phrases!
• Some others: –All that glitters is not gold–Clothes make the man–Heart of gold–Too much of a good thing–To thine own self be true
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