Julius Caesar
Across
- 4. less wealthy landholders, merchants, small farmers
- 5. age of Shakespeare at marriage
- 7. a figure of speech that has contradicting elements
- 9. give good fortune to
- 12. a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line is the ____ pentameter
- 13. direct comparison
- 17. to maintain iambic pentameter
- 20. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictions or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
- 21. parallel between nature and reality
- 25. gladly
- 26. little crowns worn by those of lesser ranking
- 27. age of Anne Hathaway at marriage
- 29. speaking to an object that can't respond
- 31. a play on words
- 33. historically incorrect
- 36. Queen who reigned during this time period
- 38. a world that has a role in many of Shakespeare's plays
- 41. unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 42. where Globe Theater was located
- 43. comparison using like or as
- 45. lifted high
- 46. city where Shakespeare was born was ____-Upon-Avon
- 49. split
Down
- 1. theater is located on east bank of this river
- 2. a reference the author expects the reader to know
- 3. natural order
- 6. a character who is noble but, due to one or more fatal character flaws is met with tragedy
- 8. month when Shakespeare was born and died
- 10. most famous Elizabethan Theatre
- 11. a stanza consisting of 2 rhyming lines in iambic pentameter is a ______ couplet
- 14. great landowners, ruling class
- 15. played leading role in many Shakespeare productions
- 16. reader knows information that characters don't
- 18. the number of plays Shakespeare wrote
- 19. built the Globe Theatre
- 20. one who makes solemn protestations
- 22. the commencement of two or more words with the same letter
- 23. the character flaw of a character
- 24. acting group to which Shakespeare belong to was ______ Men
- 27. 3 rulers: Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar
- 28. the outcome is contrary to what was expected is the _____ of situation
- 30. stood on ground at Globe Theater
- 32. one speaker on stage
- 34. group of performers who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action
- 35. women who Shakespeare married was Anne _____
- 37. a drama that ends in catastrophe
- 39. flew over on performance days
- 40. reason theaters closed in 1592-1594
- 44. lively spirted
- 47. when two characters talk on stage and others characters pretend not to hear
- 48. defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 was Sir ______ Drake