FACT OR OPINION? “William Shakespeare, often called England's national poet, is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works are loved throughout the world.”
OPINION
FACT OR OPINION? “William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King’s Men company of theatrical players.”
FACT
FACT OR OPINION? “No birth records exist, but an old church record indicates that William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564.”
FACT
FACT OR OPINION? “Uncertainty regarding his education has led some to raise questions about the authorship of his work (and even about whether or not Shakespeare really existed).”
OPINION
FACT OR OPINION? “There are seven years of Shakespeare's life where no records exist after the birth of his twins in 1585.”
FACT
FACT OR OPINION? "It's generally believed he arrived in London in the mid- to late 1580s and may have found work as a horse attendant at some of London's finer theaters."
OPINION
FACT OR OPINION? “By 1599, Shakespeare and his business partners built their own theater on the south bank of the Thames River, which they called the Globe Theater.”
FACT
FACT OR OPINION? “Skeptics questioned how anyone of such modest education could write with the intellectual perceptiveness and poetic power that is displayed in Shakespeare's works.”
OPINION
TRUE OR FALSE? A biography is a written account of someone’s life.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE? Biographies usually take a narrative form. This is why they’re considered works of realistic fiction.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE? All biographies begin at birth and end with the death of the subject.
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE? According to V. Nabokov and S. Freud, biographers are “plagiarists” and “liars”.
FALSE
