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Shakespeare fact or fiction

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TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare died on his birthday

TRUE! He died on the 23rd April 1616, aged 52

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare was bad at spelling

TRUE! He would sometimes only use 1 's' in words like 'darkness' and 'spotless'

TRUE or FALSE: His wife was called Anne Hathaway

TRUE! She was 26 when Shakespeare was 18

TRUE or FALSE: The Globe Theatre, associated with Shakespeare, was located in Stratford-upon-Avon

FALSE! It's located in London

TRUE or FALSE: The original Globe theatre is the one you can visit today

FALSE! It burned down, was rebuilt, destroyed, then built again

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare survived a pandemic

TRUE! He survived the bubonic plague, although his son did not

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare never acted in his own plays

FALSE! He acted in 4 of his plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry IV, and As You Like It

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare's son was called Hamlet

FALSE! His son was called Hamnet

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare invented the phrase 'to break the ice'

TRUE!

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare's plays were performed by both men and women

FALSE! Shakespeare's plays were performed exclusively by men

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare only wrote romantic plays and comedies

FALSE! He also wrote tragedies and history plays

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare is the most quoted English writer

TRUE!

TRUE or FALSE: The longest word in a Shakespeare play is 'honorificabilitudinitatibus'

TRUE! It means 'the state of being able to achieve honours'

TRUE or FALSE: Shakespeare is the most translated author ever

FALSE! His works have been translated into over 100 languages but Agatha Christie is the most translated author with 103 translations

TRUE or FALSE: Queen Elizabeth I was a big fan of Shakespeare's plays

TRUE! She made several requests for specific plays that she liked

TRUE or FALSE: Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet's masquerade ball

True