WebQuest on
William Shakespeare’s Life
Directions
Step 1: Go on a “quest” to find a trusted website on
William Shakespeare’s life and works.
Usually, you can trust a university site. After you complete the webquest by filling in
the blanks, list your sources at the
bottom.
Step 2:
Add three images that demonstrate aspects of Shakespeare’s life and
works.
Some suggested sites for you:
William
Shakespeare’s Life and Works
William Shakespeare was born on __April
1564____ and died ___April 1616___.
During his lifetime and after his death, he was nicknamed the “___The
Bard ___” When Shakespeare was eighteen
years old, he married ___Anne Hathaway_______ of the town London. She was ___8__ years older than he was. They had _3__ children and their son named ___Hamnet_________
later died in childhood. Shakespeare’s
father was quite a prosperous merchant as a glove maker, which allowed William
to attend school as a boy and study grammar Latin classes. In 1580, Shakespeare left Stratford and moved
to _London________ to write and act in plays.
Throughout
his writing career, William Shakespeare wrote __37_ plays and _154 __sonnets and poems.
Shakespeare’s
London
William
Shakespeare was living during an exciting time in the history of Great
Britain. _____Elizabeth
1______________________ was the ruler
of Great Britain and she reigned for
60 years. The time period (1500’s –
1600’s) was known in Great Britain as the ______Renaissance__________________________,
which means “rebirth.” Three areas in
which Great Britain was thriving in during this period of its history were
_____architecture_________________________, __________art____________________,
and __________theatre ____________.
After the above monarch (ruler) dies, King ______James
1___________________ rose to the throne.
One popular form of entertainment during
Shakespeare’s life was the theatre.
William Shakespeare worked with a company of actors called _Lord
Chamberlains men, also known as Kings men____ and they performed their plays at
the famous _____The Theatre!____________ Theatre, located on the bank of the
____Thames________________ River. For
the first time in English history, people of all classes were allowed to attend
play performances at the ____Virtual globe________ Theatre. Three interesting facts about this theatre
were _____________Associated with Shakespeare ________________________, ______built
in 1917_________________________, ______got destroyed by a fire_________________________.
During Shakespeare’s drama writing
career, he wrote four of the most accomplished tragedies in literary history. These four tragedies that he wrote between of
1604-1607 were ________Hamlet___________, ______Macbeth________________, Othello, and King Lear. Eventually,
Shakespeare’s ___Red Lion theatre _________ and other theatres were shut down
by the religious groups and ____Plague_______ (which wiped out the population
of half of Europe). In 1613, the _____Virtual
globe____ Theatre was demolished by __fire____
due to malfunction of special effects.
After William Shakespeare’s death at the age
of ___52____, his critic and friend Ben Johnson helped to gather all of
Shakespeare’s works in order to get it published in one central bound book. This collection was titled __Complete works
of William Shakespeare _______________________________________.
Today,
audiences all over the world are still captivated by such plays as the one we
are about to read entitled _________A mid-summer nights dream_____________________________________,
one of William Shakespeare’s most popular love comedy.
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