Investigative Questions

 

Research on the web and find the answers to the following questions that will help you better comprehension and learn about the life of William Shakespeare:

1. Who was William Shakespeare?

2. What were the names Shakespeare's parents?

3. Where was Shakespeare born?

4. When Shakespeare was born, who was the ruler of England?

5. What was Shakespeare's wife's name?

6. What did Shakespeare write?

7. When was Shakespeare's first play written?

8. Which type of play is Romeo and Juliet?

9. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write in total during his career?

10. What was the name of the book that was published after Shakespeare's death and included all of his plays?

11. In Shakespeare's plays, how many times does a character commit suicide?

12. What is Shakespeare's theater's name?

13. During Shakespeare's lifetime, what major disaster forced the closure of London theatres twice?

14. Shakespeare wrote how many plays?

15. Shakespeare eventually retired from public life and returned to Stratford in which year?