"William Shakespeare: Portrait of the Author"

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Across
  1. 3. Shakespeare retired to this town in 1613
  2. 7. The acting company Shakespeare joined in 1594
  3. 10. Shakespeare died on his ___
  4. 12. The monarch who became Shakespeare’s patron in 1603
  5. 14. The name for the period with little historical evidence about Shakespeare’s life
  6. 15. The river that runs through Stratford
  7. 16. Shakespeare’s collection of 154 poems published in 1609
  8. 18. Shakespeare was baptized three days after his birth in this type of church record
  9. 19. A famous comedy set partly in a forest: A Midsummer Night’s ____
  10. 20. The church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried
Down
  1. 1. The language at the center of Shakespeare’s grammar school education
  2. 2. Shakespeare’s only son who died at age eleven
  3. 4. Shakespeare’s father’s occupation, referenced often in the plays
  4. 5. Jonson Poet who called Shakespeare the “Sweet Swan of Avon”
  5. 6. The large 1623 collection of Shakespeare’s plays
  6. 8. The name for a dramatic speech revealing a character’s inner thoughts
  7. 9. Shakespeare’s acting company after James became king
  8. 11. Famous tragedy written after the death of Shakespeare’s son
  9. 13. Shakespeare’s hometown where he was born and later buried
  10. 14. The city Shakespeare traveled to in order to pursue a theater career
  11. 15. Shakespeare’s wife, whom he married at age eighteen
  12. 17. The deadly disease that closed London theaters in the early 1590s