Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Elizabethan England

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  1. 3. In what city was the first theater established?
  2. 5. Queen Mary I is historically referred to as ___________ Mary because she executed non-Catholics
  3. 7. On Shakespeare's epitaph: "Cursed be he that moves my __________."
  4. 9. The month that Shakespeare was born in
  5. 10. The ___________ Theatre opened for business in 1599 and was partly owned by Shakespeare.
  6. 14. Shakespeare died on his _______________.
  7. 17. The __________ caused health concerns in England, which challenged the success of Elizabethan Theatre
  8. 19. ___________ people viewed theater as immoral and unsuitable
  9. 21. Shakespeare was born in ___________-Upon-Avon, England
  10. 22. Juliet's cousin in the play
  11. 24. In Shakespeare's will, he left his wife his "second best _____"
  12. 25. Comic __________ is a comedic character in a tragic play that serves to offset the seriousness of the plot
  13. 27. a long speech by one singular character in a play
  14. 28. Shakespeare's wife who was 8 years older than him
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  1. 1. Shakespeare had a large effect on the development of early __________ English.
  2. 2. Who was Queen Elizabeth I's mother?
  3. 4. lines in a play that are intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by other characters in the play
  4. 6. written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
  5. 8. _____________ irony is when the audience of a play knows something the other characters do not know
  6. 11. The first professionally licensed troupe of actors was known as The _______________ men.
  7. 12. Catherine ____________, Henry VIII's fifth wife was beheaded for falling in love with a man who wasn't the king
  8. 13. Third wife of King Henry VIII, died in childbirth
  9. 15. Shakespeare established himself as an actor and a _____________ in 1588.
  10. 16. a character whose actions frustrate or contrast with the plans and actions of another character
  11. 18. The first professional troupes of actors were sponsored by the Queen, nobles, and anyone else who had the ____________ for such entertainments.
  12. 20. Count ___________ is trying to win Juliet's love in the play, but she doesn't love him back
  13. 23. One of the two main characters in Romeo and Juliet
  14. 26. Two lines of consecutive verse that rhyme (typically the last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet)