A Tragic Crossword
Across
- 5. The protagonist's love interest
- 8. Comprised of the rising action, a turning point, and a falling action
- 10. The country that Hamlet describes as an "unweeded garden" in Act 1 Scene 2.
- 15. What the ghost seeks
- 16. A core theme of the play
- 17. Claudius is this
- 18. The wife of the fallen king, now remarried
- 19. Hamlet is this kind of hero
Down
- 1. A tragedy usually ends with this
- 2. The turning point, where the hamartia is addressed
- 3. The queen of England in Shakespeare's time
- 4. Arguably the most famous playright in history
- 6. Father of two
- 7. The new king of Denmark, Old Hamlet's brother
- 9. Laertes is this to Hamlet
- 11. The audience's vicarious emotional journey with the tragic hero, leading to emotional release at the tragic end.
- 12. Elizabethans valued this
- 13. The titular protagonist
- 14. Also known as the hero's "fatal flaw"