General Vocabulary for Reading Hamlet

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Across
  1. 3. Last name of playwright
  2. 5. words spoken off-stage in what the audience would assume is an unseen room, a corridor, or the outdoors
  3. 8. scene played in the balcony above the stage level or from up in the loft
  4. 11. spoken directly to the audeince and not heard by others on the stage
  5. 12. all;everyone
  6. 14. musicians enter, playing wind instruments
  7. 15. The genre of this play
Down
  1. 1. The actors in a play
  2. 2. A blank verse rhythmic pattern
  3. 4. The setting of Hamlet
  4. 6. fanfare of trumpets; usually announces entrance of royality
  5. 7. they leave the stage
  6. 9. he/she leaves the stage
  7. 10. a speech or scene played from the surface of the stage. The actor stands inside and open trap-door
  8. 13. Where Shakespeare plays are performed
  9. 16. a loud shout, a signal to call arms