Please help me with questions about Shakespeare!?

Question

1) who was the “dark lady” referred on his sonnets?

2) how many sonnets has Shakespeare written ?

3) who ruled the country when Shakespeare was alive ?

4) what three profession is Shakespeare known for ?

5) what does the term “ the lost years” mean in relation to Shakespeare’s life ?

6) what genre of plays did Shakespeare write ?

7) can you give me three samples of everyday phrases created by Shakespeare ?

8) how many plays did Shakespeare write ? What were his most famous ?

9) what was Shakespeare’s first public work ?

10) why did men play women’s roles during this time ?

11) who was the first black actor to play in a Shakespeare play ?

12) what was the first Shakespeare play that was made into a movie ?

13) what were some of Shakespeare’s early plays and some of his later plays ?

Answer 1

It is on http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

YOU HAEV EVERY RIGHT TO use sharknotes this is boring STUFF!

Answer 2

Well, you just ruled out asking him whether he really loved Anne Hathaway or whether his boy-girl twins looked enough alike to be mistaken for each other if they put on each other's clothes. But the first thing I'd want to ask him in any case is how he acquired the education that his plays reflect. All those apparent debts and allusions to Greek tragedy in his plays--how did he know the tragedies? Then I'd want to ask him which roles he played in his own plays. There are some traditions about the roles he played, but no full, exact list of them. And I'd want to ask him whether Richard III's last line ("My kingdom for a horse!") is repeated because when he did a preliminary reading with his company without it, some wag said,"I've got one I'll trade for it!" and Shakespeare added the exchange with Catesby to make it clear that that wasn't what he meant. Also about Richard III (the play now, not the character),I'd ask whether he took Sir Thomas More's history at face value and simply embroidered on it to create a memorable villain, or whether he took that history with a grain of salt and deliberately exaggerated it to show how preposterous that portrait of Richard was. I'd ask who played Richard II in the play of that name and who played Bolinbroke, and which of them was taller. I'd ask how he intended the audience to feel about Shylock. I'd ask whether, in the original production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus and Oberon were played by the same actor. I'd ask whether he worked on the translation of the King James Bible. Not quite ten, buty those are what I can think of at the moment!

Answer 3

Do you want fries with that?





Shakespeare's Life & Times



http://absoluteshakespeare.com/



http://www.bardweb.net/man.html



http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html



http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/



http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html



http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/



http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm#History

Answer 4

What HELP do you need? I just see someone listing their work for us to do. That's not needing help, that's just being lazy.

Use this site to start:

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/