SHAKESPEARE & DRAMA TERMS

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Across
  1. 3. witches, ghosts, fate, magic, etc.
  2. 6. the only days that plays did not perform in Elizabethan England
  3. 8. a two-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
  4. 14. the years 1585-1592 are known as
  5. 15. Shakespeare was born
  6. 16. The good being destroyed along with the bad at the resolution of the play
  7. 17. Shakespeare is also known as the _______
  8. 18. in addition to being a playwright Shakespeare was also a
  9. 21. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of lines of poetry
  10. 22. a type of meter that contains five iambs per line
  11. 24. plays were about ______ hours long
  12. 25. Shakespeare's acting company: Lord _________'s Men
  13. 26. Shakespeare's cause of death
  14. 27. Shakespeare's dad made
  15. 28. a speech given by a single character on the stage with no other characters around to hear
  16. 31. Elizabethan theaters had no _______
  17. 32. A speech in which the speaker turns away from the other characters and reveals his true feelings to the audience (the characters next to him cannot hear what he is saying)
  18. 33. Shakespeare became a _______ in the theater, meaning he got a percentage of the earnings
Down
  1. 1. Shakespeare appeared here in 1592
  2. 2. Shakespeare's plays were performed at the ______ theater
  3. 4. because of this, theaters were shut down in London for a year
  4. 5. rhythmic units of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up lines of meter
  5. 7. unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
  6. 9. Shakespeare's wife
  7. 10. these people were forbidden from acting
  8. 11. the process of releasing strong or pent-up emotions through art
  9. 12. a tragic flaw
  10. 13. Shakespeare's dad's name
  11. 19. In 1616, Shakespeare
  12. 20. Shakespeare's first name
  13. 23. a speech given by a single character on the stage
  14. 24. have heroic traits that earn them the sympathy of the audience, but also have flaws or make mistakes that ultimately lead to their own downfall
  15. 29. error that leads to a character's downfall
  16. 30. Shakespeare's company changed its name to: The _______'s Men