|
|
1599: Summer
Invisible Armada
- By mid-July, how many Spanish were rumored to be attacking?
- What rumors did Henry Wake report about the Queen?
- What were loyal English Catholics called, and how were they dealt with in the summer of 1599?
- Who else were feared to have joined forces with the Spanish?
- How many Englishmen were mobilized and brought to London?
- What precautions were taken against a night-time sneak attack?
- How did shipwright Ayde suggest defending the Thames from invasion?
- What factors contributed to sending the subjects home on August 20, 1599? How long did that last?
- Who believed the "entire tale" was done to keep Essex from invading England with an Irish army? What name did he give to the fictional invasion?
- In 1598, a Kentish laborer was charged with what crime?
Passionate Pilgrim
- How many sonnets did Shakespeare, himself, publish during his lifetime, and when did he publish them?
- Who published A Passionate Pilgrim, and which Shakespearean works did it contain?
- What style of poetry was Shakespeare best known for in 1599?
- What poem by Marlowe in A Passionate Pilgrim was attributed to Shakespeare?
- How many sonnets might Shakespeare have written on a single page?
Simple Truth Suppressed
- What did Shakespeare's contemporaries think about As You Like It?
- What strategy did Shakespeare use to keep publishers like Jaggard from lifting his sonnets from As You Like It?
- What was the source for As You Like It (author and title) and where was it written?
- Give an example of the "overdone Petrarchism" that defines As You Like It's source.
- What was sponsalia per verba de futuro?
- What play satirized Shakespeare's coat of arms and his Julius Caesar?
- Who would have played Touchstone in As You Like It?
- How was As You Like It a response to competition from boy's companies?
- Why might Shakespeare have included the Masque of Hymen? What did it borrow from a performance of Julius Caesar?
- What were the words on the sign outside the Globe?
Forest of Arden
- Who was William Greenaway?
- On his way to Stratford in the 1590s, what signs of devastation might Shakespeare have seen?
- On his way to Stratford in 1599, which individuals might Shakespeare have seen?
- What factors might have caused the Stratford fires of 1594 and '95?
- How often would Shakespeare have performed his plays in Stratford? Why?
- What was one agricultural source of Shakespeare's wealth, and what was its signficance to his neighbors?
- What was a purlieu?
- With which legal proceedings was Shakespeare involved in 1599?
- What was Chancery court?
|
|
|
|
|
|