Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Research the following terms and document important elements of each item…dates, locations,
historical significance, relationship to William Shakespeare, impact/influence on Shakespeare or
his times. Provide visuals for each entry. Finally, organize your information to present to me and
the class in whatever format you feel serves you best. We will be checking facts on the next day
our class meets. This will be a major project grade. Due date posted on Schoolwires.
1) William Shakespeare – dates of birth and death
2) How have these dates been determined?
3) Location of Shakespeare’s birth – town, country, street name
4) Shakespeare’s mother’s maiden name
5) Shakespeare’s wife’s name
6) Shakespeare’s children
7) Hall’s Croft
8) New Place
9) 3 comedies, 3 tragedies, 3 histories
10) Renaissance
11) Queen and King during Shakespeare’s lifetime – separate reigns – Dates &
impact/influence
12) 4 humors and what they represent – body fluid, emotion, element
13) Poetic structure of a Shakespearean sonnet
14) Number of Sonnets in Shakespeare’s Sonnet Sequence
15) Iambic Pentameter
16) Three theaters of Shakespeare’s time – dates
17) Name of main theater with which Shakespeare was associated – dates, diagram, what
happened to it?
18) Two theater companies with whom Shakespeare was associated
19) First Folio – define, dates, names of those involved
20) The Three Fate Sisters – names, role of each
21) Location of Shakespeare’s grave
22) Inscription on Shakespeare’s tomb
23) List the plays that begin with the following lines – dates:
a) “Now is the winter of our discontent…”
b) “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”
c) “Hence! Home you idle creatures, get you home; Is this a holiday?”
d) “If music be the food of love, play on…”
e) “Who’s there?”
f) “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
24) List the plays that contain the following characters:
a) Bassanio and Shylock
b) The three witches
c) Desdemona
d) Sebastian and Viola
e) Bolingbroke and John of Gaunt
f) Falstaff (3 plays)