Word List Shakespeare 235 words

Shakespeare Vocabulary Word List (235)

  • A

    ABSTINENCE, abuse, actor, actress, admiration, admonish, AMBITION, Ann Hathaway, anxiety, appeal, artistic, assassination, audience, author

  • B

    BARD, beauty, betrayal, bold, brilliance, British

  • C

    calamity, career, cast, CAULDRON, cause, character, characters, citizen, clout, COMEDIES, comedy, commonplace, composition, concept, conduct, conflict, CONSCIENCE, conspire, converse, corrupt, costume, creator, critical, cruelty, culture

  • D

    death, deceive, deception, demanding, despair, device, dialog, disgrace, diverse, DRAMA, dramatic, drunkard, duel, dying

  • E

    effect, Elizabethan, emote, emotion, entertainment, eternal, events, evil, exuberant

  • F

    fame, fidelity, flourish, focus, foe, foible, foretell, fortune, forum, fraud

  • G

    garments, generate, genius, Globe Theater, goodness, grace, greed

  • H

    hatred, haunt, hero, heroine, heroism, hidden, HISTORIES, hope, human, humor

  • I

    identity ignominious, imagery, IMAGINATION, immoral, INCONSTANT, infidelity, INFINITE, influence, innuendo, interest, interpretation

  • J

    judicious, justice, justification

  • K

    keen, killer, killing, king

  • L

    language, law, lie, life, literary, literature, lively, London, lonely, love, lying, lyric

  • M

    meaning, MERCY, mistaken identity, mistakes, mockery, morality

  • N

    narrative, nature

  • O

    obsession, opinion, optimism, original, ostensible, OUTRAGEOUS

  • P

    pageantry, performance, performer, pessimism, philosopher, pickpocket, piety, play, PLAYWRIGHT, plot, poem, poet, popularity, portrayal, power, praise, pretend, prohibit, props, prose fiction

  • Q

    quality, quantity, quarto, queen, query, quest

  • R

    rant, reader, reality, reason, religious, repentance, reputation, RESOLUTION, respect, REVENGE, rhetoric, rivalry, role, romance, royalty, rural

  • S

    scene, scenery, scheme, secret, sensitivity, setting, SHAKESPEARE, shepherd, sibling rivalry, sign, society, SOLILOQUY, SONNET, spectator, splendor, sponsorship, stage, Stratford-upon-Avon, struggle, suspicion, suspicious, SYMBOLISM

  • T

    talent, theater, theatrical, theme, topic, TRAGEDY, treachery, types

  • U

    understanding, unique, universal

  • V

    vehement, vengeance, venue, verse, violence, visual, vivid, vocabulary

  • W

    war, widespread, wisdom, woe, works, worry, worthy, wrath

  • X

  • Y

    youth

  • Z

    zeal, zealous, zest

Shakespeare word list: 1564-1616
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Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Shakespeare plays:



A Midsummer Night’s Dream


As You Like It


Julius Caesar


Hamlet


Macbeth


Much Ado About Nothing


Othello


Romeo and Juliet


The Merchant of Venice


The Taming of the Shrew


Twelfth Night



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