Bill Bryson's Shakespeare
Across
- 3. Earl of ____, Shakespeare's patron
- 6. Acting troupe Shakespeare worked with
- 8. Three principles of drama derived from Aristotle's "Poetics"
- 9. The ____ Shakespeare Library houses the largest repository of First Folios in the present day
- 12. The _____ engraving accompanied the publishing of the First Folio
- 13. A highly dangerous disease that killed many in Elizabethan times but is completely eradicated today
- 15. Edward ____, purported to be Shakespeare's true identity by conspiracist J. Thomas Looney
- 16. The item bequeathed to Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare's will
- 17. Only son of Shakespeare, died in 1596
- 18. Henry ____, believed to be the subject of the "Fair Young Man" sonnets
- 19. Narrative poem and Shakespeare's greatest publishing success
Down
- 1. Site of Shakespeare's grave
- 2. The History of ____ is a lost play and collaborative work of Shakespeare and Fletcher's
- 4. Heminges and ____ compiled the First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare's plays
- 5. One of the many words Shakespeare invented; related to genetics
- 7. Contemporary of Shakespeare; wrote a dedication to the engraving in the First Folio
- 9. John ____, collaborated with Shakespeare on plays such as "The Two Noble Kinsmen"
- 10. The first "Shakespeare's true identity" conspiracist, who theorized his works were written by Francis Bacon
- 11. The ___ portrait is the most recent verified portrait of Shakespeare.
- 14. One of Shakespeare's writing flaws; related to geography