Background to Shakespeare

2. "To be or not to be, that is the..."
4. The opening introduction to a play.
6. "The course of true love never did run..."
9. The year Shakespeare was born.
12. Shakespeare's wife.
13. Theatre that Shakespeare's company played in.
16. The year Shakespeare died.
19. Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream - he gets his head turned into a donkey's.
20. The Queen of England when Shakespeare started writing.
21. "All the world's a... (place where plays are performed)"
22. The King of Scotland and England when Shakespeare died.

1. Historical play written about a famous Roman.
3. The town where Shakespeare was born and lived.
5. A pair of 'star-crossed lovers' in one of Shakespeare's plays.
7. The individual sounds in a word. 'Water' has two of them: wa + ter.
8. Shakespeare's first name.
10. The opposite of comedy.
11. A famous Shakespeare play set in Scotland.
14. Short individual pieces of action, which go together to make up an Act.
15. One of Shakespeare's plays, another word for a storm.
16. A 14 line poem, usually about love, that Shakespeare was famous for writing.
17. "Life's but a walking..."
18. When two words have similar endings and sound nice together.