Common Shakespearean Language

Select the contraction:

• can't

• cannot

• will not

• could

Select the contraction:

• sirrah

• stabbed

• stabb'd

• morrow

What does the contraction "ne'er" mean?

• Neither

• Never

• No one

• Near

What does the contraction "'Tis" mean?

• It is

• This

• That

• Stick

What do the words "thee" and "thou" mean?

• My

• Your

• You

• I

What does the word "thy" mean?

• Ours

• They

• You

• Your

Select the sentence that has "thee" used correctly in it.

• What is thee name?

• Come, let me clutch thee.

• To thee own self be true.

• Thee art my brother.

Select the sentence that has "thy" used correctly in it.

• Not for thy fairy kingdom.

• Wherefore art thy Romeo?

• Thy art too full of the milk of human kindness

• To be or not to thy?

What does the word "art" mean, when used as a verb in Elizabethan English?

• Heart

• Part

• Am

• Are

Define "base," as used in Elizabethan English.

• Bottom or underneath

• Dishonorable, low, unworthy

• Basic

• Goal