There’s already a Shakespeare quiz at TriviaPark.com, so today’s question may have to fit in somewhere else. It concerns an event that to Will Shakespeare would have been both a drama and a tragedy. Find out more, as we play…
Guess the catastrophe
William Shakespeare’s professional home for most of his career was The Globe, a celebrated London theater that unfortunately did not outlast even him. It met its demise in 1613, three years before Shakespeare’s own death. How was The Globe destroyed?
- Collapsed: the upper stands gave way when a record crowd rioted during a dull show
- Demolished: to build a luxury villa, Rochester Hall, on the same site
- Incinerated: when cannon-fire used in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII ignited the straw roof
- Torn apart: by a Protestant mob outraged by supposed ‘code-words’ in certain plays