Shakespeare Trivia

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Across
  1. 3. Shakespeare was born and died in...
  2. 7. Shakespeare's children in alphabetical order (6,6,7)
  3. 11. A phrase Shakespeare coined, meaning 'in a difficult situation' (2,1,6)
  4. 12. Play he wrote about Queen Elizabeth's father (5,3,6)
  5. 13. Another famous playwright from the same era (11,7)
  6. 16. King whom Shakespeare wrote to please (5,3,5)
  7. 17. Shakespeare's birthplace
Down
  1. 1. One of Shakespeare's theatres that is now also the name of a theatre in Stratford (3,4)
  2. 2. Shakespeare's age when he died (5,5)
  3. 4. Shakespeare's theatre that burned down (3,5)
  4. 5. Mr Raybould has this for breakfast every day (9,2,5)
  5. 6. Queen who died in 1603 (9,3,5)
  6. 8. Shakespeare's wife
  7. 9. Reason the theatres were sometimes closed (3,6)
  8. 10. Rhythm Shakespeare wrote in (6,10)
  9. 14. What happened to the people in the standing area of the theatre when it rained? (4,3,3
  10. 15. Modern scholars sometimes call Shakespeare this (3,4)