Shakespeare

Who was W. Shakespeare?

When did W. Shakespeare live?

How many kids he had?

• 3

• 5

• 4

• 1

What is the name of the theatre where his acting career began?

How many plays he wrote?

The main plot of The Taming of the Shrew is about:

• Unfaithful wife

• Taming of the rat

• Man must tame his headstrong to-be-wife

• Woman must tame her crazy to-be-husband

What is comedy?

• protagonist who suffers a fall from his position, before the normal order is somehow resumed

• English history from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the 1399-1485 period in particular

• plays full of fun, irony and dazzling wordplay, mistaken identities, with very convoluted plots that are difficult to follow

What is tragicomedy?

• plays full of fun, irony and dazzling wordplay, difficult to follow with very contrived endings

• protagonist (the tragic hero) who makes a mistake and suffers a fall from his position

• plays normally refer to the ten plays that cover English history

• play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, although it has the features of both

What tragicomedies do you know?

How did Shakespeare change English

• he added prefixes and suffixes (ex. replay, sadly)

• He add words such as lonely, friend, tragedy etc.

• He added a maximum of 10 000 words

• He added at least 3000 words