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Activity worksheets
LEVEL 4
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Shakespeare, His Life and Plays
While reading
Chapters 1–3
1 Answer these questions.
a
What percentage (%) of the population of
Stratford-upon-Avon died in the plague of
1564?
………………………………………………
b
What did John Shakespeare’s business make?
………………………………………………
c
Why was it unusual for Mary Arden’s father
to make her responsible for his will and to
leave her his best property?
………………………………………………
d
What three languages do we know that
Shakespeare could read as well as English?
………………………………………………
2 Match the dates and numbers to the
sentences.
3 8 150 1581 summer 1582
November 1582 1586
a
Shakespeare began a relationship with Anne
Hathaway at this time.
b
The number of years age difference between
Shakespeare and Anne.
c
The number of sonnets published by
Shakespeare.
d
The year that Anne Hathaway’s father died.
e
The month when Shakespeare and Anne
married.
f
The number of children that Shakespeare and
Anne had.
g
The year when Shakespeare probably left
Stratford for London.
3 Circle the mistakes in these sentences. There
may be more than one in each sentence. Write
the correct words.
a
Robert Greene liked Shakespeare because he
had been to university.
b
Like writers in Hollywood, dramatists in
Elizabethan London usually kept control over
their work.
c
All of Shakespeare’s plays were published
before he died.
d
Shakespeare was the only good dramatist of
his time.
e
Shakespeare’s early plays are all in the same
style.
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f
The Taming of the Shrew is very popular with
modern audiences.
Chapters 4–5
4 Use these names to complete the sentences.
Anna of Denmark Lord Burghley
Christopher Marlowe the Earl of Essex
James Burbage the Earl of Southampton
James I
a
In some of his sonnets Shakespeare describes
his love for a handsome young man.
Some people think that the young man is
……………… .
b
……………… was put to death by Queen
Elizabeth I in 1601.
c
The next king of England after Queen
Elizabeth died was ……………… .
d
……………… was the wife of King James I.
e
……………… wanted the Earl of
Southampton to marry his granddaughter.
f
……………… was killed in a pub in London
in 1594.
g
Philip Henslowe and ……………… ran rival
theatre companies.
5 Write the name of the play next to each of
these sentences.
a
A fairy king and queen make life difficult for
two pairs of young lovers.
b
Falstaff is the hero of this funny play. It has
many characters with silly accents.
c
This play is set in Italy and the famous villain
is a Jew.
d
In this play a cousin of the king rebels and
takes the throne.
e
Love between two young people from rival
families ends in tragedy.
Chapters 6–7
6 Put these events in the order they happened.
a
c
Shakespeare became a partner in the
Burbage theatre.
b
c
They carried their theatre, piece by piece,
outside the city walls and across the river.
c
c
They built a new theatre – the Globe.
d
c
The Burbage theatre company was not
allowed to use their theatre inside the city
of London.
e
c
In 1598 there was a cold winter.
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Activity worksheets
LEVEL 4
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Shakespeare, His Life and Plays
7 Match the names and the descriptions of these
characters from Hamlet.
a
Horatio …..
b
Laertes …..
c
Claudius …..
d
Gertrude …..
e
Hamlet …..
f
Ophelia …..
1)
son of the king, nephew of Claudius
2)
Hamlet’s uncle, who murdered Hamlet’s
father and married Hamlet’s mother
3)
Hamlet’s friend
4)
Polonius’s daughter
5)
Polonius’s son
6)
Hamlet’s mother
8 Use these words to complete the sentences.
against enjoyed executed friends lucky
people perform rebel
The Earl of Essex and the Earl of Southampton
were close (a) …………… . Essex was sent to
stop the Irish rebellion (b) …………… the
English in 1599. In 1601 Essex decided to
(c) …………… against the queen. Before he
rode to her palace, he watched Shakespeare’s
company (d) …………… Richard
II.
(e) …………… in the country did not support
or follow Essex. He was (f
) ……………
by Queen Elizabeth. Shakespeare and his
company were (g) …………… the Queen
(h) …………… plays.
Chapters 8–9
9 Who are these people?
a
This is a man who does not understand what
real love is. He dies of a broken heart with his
dead daughter in his arms. ……………
b
This is a man who loves his wife but does not
understand why she loves him. He believes
the lies of his evil officer about his wife.
……………
c
This is a woman who really loves her father.
Her sisters love only his money and land.
……………
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d
This is a man who wants power and will
perform any crime to get it. ……………
e
This is a very clever man who loves to tell lies.
……………
f
This is a woman who loves her husband more
than herself. ……………
10 Answer these questions.
a
Which people from the past did Elizabethans
admire most?
………………………………………………
b
What dead language did schoolboys learn?
………………………………………………
c
Who played the women’s parts in
Shakespeare’s plays?
………………………………………………
d
Who does Plutarch blame for the failure of
Mark Antony?
………………………………………………
e
Why does Cleopatra kill herself at the end of
Shakespeare’s play?
………………………………………………
f
What job did Coriolanus have before he
becomes a governor of the city of Rome?
………………………………………………
g
What did Shakespeare publish for the first
time in 1609?
………………………………………………
Chapters 10 –12
11 Find the correct second half for each sentence.
a
The Blackfriars theatre was different from the
Globe …..
b
The new fashion in plays in 1607–8 …..
c
Shakespeare’s most successful play in this new
style …..
d
The Winter’s Tale is about an imaginary love
affair …..
e
In this play we can find events …..
1)
is The
Winter’s Tale.
2)
like those in Shakespeare’s own life.
3)
because it had a roof.
4)
mixed tragedy with comedy.
5)
between Leontes’s wife and his best friend.
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Progress test
LEVEL 4
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Shakespeare, His Life and Plays
1 Put the following events in chronological order.
a
c
Elizabeth became Queen of England.
b
c
William married Anne Hathaway.
c
c
Shakespeare was born.
d
c
Shakespeare wrote Venus
and Adonis.
e
c
The first real theatre was opened in London by
James Burbage.
f
c
Shakespeare’s daughter, Susanna, was born.
g
c
Henry VIII became King of England.
h
c
Judith and Hammock were born.
i
c
Alleyn left Burbage’s company and joined their
rival: Phillip Henslowe.
j
c
Shakespeare wrote Much
Ado about Nothing.
2 Circle the correct answer.
a
Shakespeare wrote five / eight plays between 1594
and 1598.
b
Shakespeare wrote Romeo
and Juliet
/
A Midsummer
Night´s Dream for the wedding of his patron’s
granddaughter.
c
Much Ado about nothing
/
Julius Ceasar is a comedy.
d
The Globe was built inside / outside the city.
e
Claudio and Hero had modern / traditional views
about love.
3 Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)
about Hamlet?
a
It is difficult to decide whether Hamlet is really
c
mad or is pretending.
b
Kyd had written The
Spanish Tragedy.
c
c
Hamlet believes that the ghost that appears
c
is not the Devil.
d
Hamlet kills Ophelia.
c
e
Hamlet kills Polonius.
c
f
Ophelia goes mad as a consequence of her
c
brother’s death.
g
The Elizabethan audience believed it was
natural for Hamlet’s mother to marry his
uncle.
c
h
Hamlet changes during the play.
c
i
The tradition in revenge plays is similar to
c
the tradition in a Western film.
j
The villain’s death should be caused by his
rival.
c
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4 Complete the sentences with the correct word from
the box.
Ben Jonson George Wilkins Leontes
Herminges and Cordell Susanna John Fletcher
Ovid Perdita Prospero Robert Greene
a
………………………… wrote the first part of
Pericles.
b
Shakespeare got the idea for The
Winter’s Tale from
………………………… .
c
………………………… is the King of Sicily’s
daughter in The
Winter’s Tale.
d
………………………… is the main character in
The Tempest.
e
………………………… wrote Shakespeare’s
favourite Latin poem.
f
………………………… was the main dramatist
for the King’s Men after Shakespeare.
g
………………………… received the most from
Shakespeare’s will.
h
………………………… published eighteen of
Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays.
i
………………………… said that Shakespeare
‘was not of an age but for all time.’
j
………………………… is the King of Sicily in
The Winter’s Tale.
5 Match the play with the theme it analyses.
a
The Winter’s Tale
b
King Lear
1)
jealousy
2)
politics and the
attitude of the
different social classes
3)
relationship between
parents and children
4)
madness
5)
forgiveness for the
past
c
Coriolanus
d
Othello
e
Hamlet
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