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Fairs, Feasts and Festivals

(with some superstitions and witchcraft in there somewhere too) (maybe the odd bit of hanging) (and some torture)

Tuesday 22nd April

Stick the Shakespeare picture in the centre of a clean page in your exercise books.

LO: recap basic facts about Shakespeare, learn about what it was like to be a poor man in Shakespeare’s time

Time allowed: 12 minutes

Quiz me up, I pray• Stand up if you think the answers

to the following questions are true.• Remain seated if you think the

answer is false.• Record any true answers around

your image of ShakespeareThis is a quick-fire quiz – be on ye

balle!!

• Shakespeare was born on 3rd March, 1971• Shakespeare’s father was a glove-maker• His father was fined for making a dunghill

outside his house• He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon• He had 12 brothers and sisters• William was the oldest of 6 surviving children• In Shakespeare’s day he had to start school at

6am and finish at 6pm, and work on Saturdays

• Shakespeare studied word processing, knitting, aeronautics and cycling at school

• Shakespeare studied grammar, Latin, Greek, History, Maths and RE.

• Shakespeare couldn’t spell and had awful handwriting

• Shakespeare married a woman called Ivy Clare Fishpool

• Shakespeare was a boy-toy; he got married when he was 17 and his wife was 26.

• Shakespeare’s wife was pregnant when they got married

• Shakespeare and his wife and twins called Alfonso and Hortense

• Shakespeare and his wife had twins called Hamnet and Judith

• Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays are called Oliver, Cinderella and King Tut.

• Shakespeare wrote 37 plays• Shakespeare wrote a play called ‘The Taming of

the Shrew’

• Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday• When he died, he left everything to his cat• When he died, he left his wife the second

best bed in his house and nothing else

Fun Fun Fun!• Watching criminals be

hanged or lose their heads (YAY!)

• Tormenting inmates at insane asylums (MMM!)

• Watching bear baiting (OOOO!)

• Seeing a play in a garden, pub or theatre (Oh, super darling. Pass the sausage rolls.)

What era did Shakespeare live in?

Plays as entertainment

• Shakespeare’s plays taught people about society and about how human beings relate to each other and to the world they lived in

• They could be about rich men, poor men, royalty, peasants, ghosts, witches or fairies!

• In Elizabeth’s day, the Church was very important to the average poor Elizabethan.

• Shakespeare’s plays reflect the importance of religious festivals, feasts and fairs in the lives of ALL Elizabethans, even royalty.

Going back in time… The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Decorate your A2 sheets with the images, then record as many facts as you can around them.

The winner gets _________ (fill in the blank)

What do you think….

And what have you learnt?

Homework:

Tell your parents FIVE facts that you have learnt today that you are pretty sure they didn’t know before.