Shakespeare Questions?

Question

-What monarchs reigned in Shakespeares country during his lifetime

-What verse form did he use

-What is the first edition called

-name three people who supposedly ghostwote for Shakespeare

Answer 1

1)Shakespeare : Baptised April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616.
Elizabeth the First came to the thrown on 7th September 1533 and remained Queen until her death in March 1603.
King James VI of Scotland and the First of England took the English thrown in 1603 until his death in 1625.
2) English Sonnet, it became known at the The Shakespearean sonnet. It comprises of 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhyming "ababcdcdefefgg." i.e. three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. This differs from the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet form.
3) The First Folio edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare, published in 1623 some seven years after Shakespeare's death.
4) The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
Francis Bacon, Philosopher and Writer
Christopher Marlowe See http://www.bardweb.net/debates.html

Answer 2

Elizabeth 1
James

Iambic pentameter

first folio

Marlowe
Sir Francis Bacon
sorry can't remember the third

any good Shakespeare text or website should tell you these things

Answer 3

1. Elizabeth I, James I
2. blankverse
3. The First Folio
4. Marlowe, Bacon, ???

Answer 4

2.sonnets
3.The First Folio

Answer 5

he wrote using sonnets

his first edition was called the first folio

Answer 6

2. sonnet
4. christopher marlowe