Shakespeare's life, world and works
Across
- 4. Shakespeare and his company built the ______ theatre.
- 7. One famous play of Shakespeare's is Romeo and ________.
- 8. ________ said 'Is this a dagger I see before me?'.
- 10. For the Elizabethan audience the play always had to move from disorder to _____ to maintain the normal world.
- 11. Popular belief also held that people's ______ were affected by events in the heavens.
- 13. All of Shakespeare's tragedies are about __________ between the protagonists.
- 15. The Globe theatre had no ________, actors just came on and off the stage as needed.
- 16. Anne ____________ was Shakespeare's wife
- 20. Only _____ performed in Shakespeare's plays.
- 22. The Merchant of Venice considers ___________ against the Jew Shylock.
- 23. Shakespeare's ________ to our world shows his understanding of stagecraft, language and character.
- 24. Shakespeare's themes work on three levels, ________, social and natural.
- 25. The new name of Shakespeare's acting company was the ________ ____.
- 26. Shakespeare's ___ who died at age 11.
Down
- 1. One of the famous lines 'To be or not to be' was spoken by ________ in the play of the same name.
- 2. A popular belief was that the universe was made up of _________ contained within one another.
- 3. The date of Shakespeare's ______ is listed as April 23, 1616.
- 5. Shakespeare was _____ on April 23, 1564
- 6. The signs of the _______ were important to people, their star sign related to what sort of person they were.
- 9. Queen ___________ was the ruler for most of Shakespeare's life.
- 12. Between 1600 and 1606 Shakespeare wrote his most famous ___________.
- 13. People believed that all things were arranged in order called the divine _____ __ . ____.
- 14. The stage had no _________, only lines in the play told you where the scene was occurring.
- 17. Many of Shakespeare's plays refer to ________ and the theatre to make a point about peoples' lives.
- 18. Not only did Shakespeare write plays but he was also a shareholder in the acting __________.
- 19. Macbeth turns to the forces of ____ and visits the witches to learn about his future.
- 21. When the queen died, the next ______ was James I.
- 25. The divine right of ____ meant that the ruler was God's representative on earth.