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1. Where was William Shakespeare born?
2. In what year was he born?
3. What major disaster closed London theatres twice during Shakespeare's career?
4. How much older than himself was William Shakespeare's wife?
5. How many months after their wedding was their first baby born?
6. Shakespeare was the father of twins.
7. Shakespeare belonged to a group of actors in London that changed its name part way through his career. To what did they change their name?
8. Shakespeare introduced the use of unrhymed iambic pentameter in plays, also called blank verse.
9. Under which of the following pairs of monarchs did William Shakespeare work?
10. Though the canonical list of Shakespeare's plays runs to 38 entries, how many were published in the First Folio of 1623?
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