1. William Shakespeare ala Shmoop Insane Trivia… And it’s true, all true! Works Cited: Shmoop Editorial Team. "William Shakespeare Trivia." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Dec. 2008. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.

2. Mix & Match- Work with your candy partner to match facts & #s about The Bard. Notes Page Notes Page Notes Page

3. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge Shakespeare's surviving works add up to a staggering 884,647 words and 118,406 lines. 20 20 Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, clocking in at 4,042 lines. His shortest is The Comedy of Errors, with 1,787. 21 21

4. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare coined more than 500 new words, many of which are still commonly used in English speech. Popular Will-isms include: amazement, bump, lonely, countless, useful, radiance and lackluster. 23 23

5. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge Shakespeare has been translated into at least 80 languages, including Chinese, Bengali, Tagalog, and Uzbek. 24 24 When the First Folio was published in 1623, you could buy a copy for £1 (1 pound British money), worth as much at the time as several hundred dollars today. In 2006, a surviving original copy of the First Folio (one of only about 230 in the world) sold for nearly $5 million. 25 25

6. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge "Shakespeare" is spelled 80 different ways in documents dating from the Bard's time, including "Shaxpere" and "Shaxberd." 26 26 A ticket to the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare's time would have cost you a penny, or $1.66 in today's money. At a posh indoor theater like Blackfriars, tickets started at a whopping sixpence (about $10). If you were rolling large, you could sit on the stage for two shillings ($40) or buy a box for half-a-crown ($50). 27 27

7. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge In his will, William Shakespeare bequeathed to his wife Anne Hathaway only his "second best bed." (Under the law, she was also automatically entitled to one-third of his estate and lifelong occupancy of Shakespeare's home.) There's no way of knowing whether this was a thoughtful bequest (hey, maybe she really liked that bed), some kind of inside joke, or a rather nasty insult. 29 29

8. Brain Snacks- Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge The Klingon Language Institute, the official organization dedicated to the revival of Star Trek's Klingon language, runs the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project. They've so far translated Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing into Klingon. (For Christian Klingon speakers, they've also translated the Bible.) 30 30

9. And one more reason we still love The Bard…