Shakespeare Crossword

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  1. 1. Shakespeare is one of the most ____ men that ever lived
  2. 5. Rumour has it that poet ____ was so influenced by Shakespeare that he kept a bust of the Bard beside him while he wrote, hoping that Shakespeare would spark his creativity.
  3. 7. Hamlet is the second most filmed story in the world, coming second only to ___
  4. 9. Some people think Shakespeare was a ____
  5. 10. Shakespeare's first child, Susanna was born ____ months after their marriage.
  6. 13. Idle talk or rumors
  7. 15. The Bard of Avon ______ between 1585 and 1592
  8. 17. Shakespeare was more _______ than he was Elizabethan
  9. 19. Shakespeare's longest play
  10. 21. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a ____ in 1747.
  11. 22. Shakespeare’s father held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to _________.
  12. 23. Shakespeare wore a gold hoop ____
  13. 24. The queen of witches in Shakespeare's Play Macbeth
  14. 27. Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of ____
  15. 28. Arden One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side,______, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.
Down
  1. 2. In 1599, the company built their own theatre, The Globe on the south banks of the River ___.
  2. 3. "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in ____?"
  3. 4. Hamlet was based on a well known ____ legend called Amleth
  4. 6. Who was Romeo in love with before he met Juliet?
  5. 8. Shakespeare’s parents were probably ______, and his children almost certainly were.
  6. 9. An open air game
  7. 11. To impress someone so one is oblivious to another's faults
  8. 12. Shakespeare’s family home in Stratford was called ____
  9. 14. The house stood on the corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane, and was apparently the ___ largest house in the town
  10. 16. Hamlet is one of two plays to be translated into ____
  11. 18. The plague was this type of fast spreading disease
  12. 20. Shakespeare married an older woman who was _____ months pregnant at the time.
  13. 25. Shakespeare penned a ____ for his grave, daring anyone to move his body from his final resting place
  14. 26. in his will, he appeared to only give his ____ a bed.