Shakespeare contexts quiz

Shakespeare wrote during the....

• Elizabethan and Jacobean era's

• Elizabethan and Edwardian era's

• Jacobean and Victorian era's

• Stuart and Georgian era's

Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe wasn't jus a playwright, he was also a....

• Famous Chef

• A secret Government agent

• Filmmaker

• Lawyer

What were the Sumptuary Laws?

• Laws that decided what clothes people could wear

• Laws that decided what jobs people could have

• Laws that stopped women having the right to vote

• Laws that closed the theatres

Reorder the following into the societal structure of Shakespeare's time (1 being richest and most important)

• The Monarch

• Lower Sort (Servants, labourers etc)

• Nobles and Lords

• Gentry

• Middling Sort (merchants, craftsmen etc)

How much would a company usually spend a year on costumes?

• £300 a year (£35,000 in todays money)

• £20 a year (£2000 in todays money)

• £200 a year (£20,000 in todays money)

• £900 a year (£950,000 in todays money)

Only royalty and nobles could wear ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   embroidery. Similarly, ​ (c)   were reserved for the aristocracy. Commoners were expected to wear ​ (d)   .

• purple
• gold and silver
• silk, velvet and satin
• wool, linen, or simple fabrics
• Leopard print 
• neon colors
• Stripes
• red

What ingredients helped boy actors playing women have pale skin?

• Powdered hog bones and poppy oil

• Loreal Paris foundation

• Yoghurt and spiders eggs

• Powdered mealworms and plaster

The sound of thunder was made by...

• rolling a cannon ball in a chest backstage

• Someone's stomach rumbling

• Clattering pans backstage

• audio recording played on loudspeakers