It’s national Shakespeare Day! To celebrate, we’ve created a quiz to put your Shakespeare knowledge to the test.
April 23 is national Shakespeare Day, believed to be the date on which the Bard was born and died.
But do you know what year William Shakespeare died in?
Do you profess to be Shakespeare savvy, to know your Montagues from your Capulets and to have read each one of his famous works?
See how you fare in our quiz.
Some Shakespeare facts
• Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 17. She was 26 and was pregnant when they married
• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burnt down on June 29, 1613, after a cannon shot set fire to it during a performance of Henry VIII
• Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights
• One of Shakespeare’s relatives, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed
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