Shakespeare Web Quest
1. When and where was Shakespeare born?
2. What were Shakespeare’s parents’ names?
3. What does Renaissance mean?
4. When was the Elizabethan Age and why is it called that?
5. Where did Shakespeare (probably) attend grammar school?
6. What was the focus of his grammar school curriculum?
7. What did Shakespeare do before he became a writer?
8. When was the Globe Theater built? By whom?
9. How do we know what London looked like in Shakespeare’s day?
10. Who were Lord Chamberlain’s Men?
11. What is a groundling?
12. How were plays and playhouses viewed by society in Shakespeare’s day?
13. Who did Shakespeare marry? When?
14. What did Shakespeare never do that most playwrights of his day did? What did Robert Greene
call him?
15. What three types of plays did Shakespeare write?
16. Name three of each type.
17. Why were all the London Theaters closed in 1593?
18. “To be or not to be…” comes from which play? What does the speech mean?
19. “All the world’s a stage…” comes from which play? What does the speech mean?
20. What is a sonnet? How many did Shakespeare write?
21. When did Shakespeare die?
On the back of this page, write ten other questions about Shakespeare (and their answers). You will
be able to “test” your classmates later.