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1599: Epilogue
- Who said at Christmas in 1599: "The court is not great but full of jollity and reels and plays and as merry as if it were not sick. . . . My Lord of Essex and his train are no more missed here than the angels which were cast down from heaven nor (for anything I see) likelier to return"?
- Who wrote "Who lives past ninety-nine/ Shall afterward speak of a blessed time"?
- What did Essex give the queen for Christmas in 1599? What was her response?
- Whose journal describes Elizabeth, post-1599, as "thrust[ing] her sword at times into the arras in great rage"?
- Which of Shakespeare's plays, if any, might have been performed at court in 1599?
- Whose play called the Elizabethan court "the great pantheon of our goddess"?
- How and why did Jonson revise the end of Every Man Out of His Humour for court?
- After Christmas, in 1600, quarto volumes of which Shakespeare plays were available for the first time?
- Which actor was probably stabbed twice by Burbage (once as Caesar and once as Polonius)?
- How would dramatic offerings at the Globe differ from those at Henslowe's Fortune?
- Which of Shakespeare's plays would push "the edge of experimentation to the breaking point"?
- How did Mountjoy's campaign against the Irish differ from Essex's?
- Which Shakespeare play did Essex pay the Chamberlain's men to stage on the eve of his failed uprising against the queen? What happened as a result?
- Who orchestrated King James's peaceful accession to the throne in 1603?
- By dying in 1616, Shakespeare missed two of what four major things, according to Shaprio?
Extra Credit: Which of following is the greatest song ever written?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGw0kPaw2s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_Sz-8zlAY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw
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