Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 34 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Shakespeare trivia questions
William Shakespeare was a famous playwright from which country?
Answer: England
Bonus fact: Shakespeare wrote during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
Which Shakespeare tragedy features Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Bonus fact: The play centers on two young lovers from feuding families.
What theater in London is closely associated with Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Globe Theatre
Bonus fact: Shakespeare's company performed at the Globe.
What meter is strongly associated with Shakespeare's sonnets?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
Bonus fact: Shakespearean sonnets are typically written in iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare's Globe is associated with which playwright?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Bonus fact: Many Shakespeare plays were performed at the original Globe.
Which Shakespeare character gives the famous 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy?
Answer: Hamlet
Bonus fact: It is one of the best-known speeches in English drama.
Which Shakespeare plays make extensive use of blank verse?
Answer: Many of his tragedies and histories
Bonus fact: Shakespeare often shifts between blank verse and prose.
William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Hamlet and what tragedy about star-crossed lovers?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Bonus fact: Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies, histories, and poetry.
Shakespeare was born in which English town?
Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon
Bonus fact: He was baptized there in 1564.
Which theater company was Shakespeare associated with that later became the King's Men?
Answer: Lord Chamberlain's Men
Bonus fact: King James I became the troupe's patron in 1603.
The Shakespeare authorship question disputes what?
Answer: Whether William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him
Bonus fact: Mainstream scholars accept Shakespeare of Stratford as the author.
Which Shakespeare play is considered lost?
Answer: Love's Labour's Won
Bonus fact: The title appears in early records but no surviving text is known.