| A | B |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England |
| James I | followed Elizabeth I as King of England |
| Globe Theatre | Shakespeare's favorite playhouse |
| Anne Hatheway | Shakespeare's wife |
| Hamnet | son who died |
| Susannah | first child |
| Shakespeare's birthplace | Stratford- on- Avon |
| three | number of Globe Theatres |
| Swan | Elizabethan playhouse |
| tragedy | drama with sad ending |
| comedy | drama with happy ending |
| history | drama using real events |
| glovemaker | profession of William's father |
| century of Shakespeare's birth | sixteenth |
| century of Shakespeare's death | seventeenth |
| 1603 | James I comes to the throne. |
| <i>Julius Caesar</i> | tragedy based on Roman history |
| sonnet | type of poem made famous by Shakespeare |
| Matthew Arnold | 19th century poet |
| place of Shakespeare's death | Stratford |
| place of Shakespeare's fame | London |
| April 23 | date of Shakespeare's death |
| April 23 | date of Shakespeare's birth |
| 1616 | year of Shakespeare's death |
| 52 | Shakespeare's age at his death |