Across
- 4. Where what is thought to be London's first purpose-built playhouse was built
- 5. A stylish new item from France
- 10. A thief
- 12. Anne Hathaway's name in her fathers will
- 15. Work that Venus and Adonis is said to have been based on
- 16. After 1606 these were subject to hefty fines, so largely vanished from plays
- 17. What was handed out on the streets to advertise what was being offered at the theater
- 18. The King's Men opened this theater in the same year that Shakespeare's mother died
- 20. Where Shakespeare followed 2 across to
- 21. Shakespeare may have followed this person to 4 down
Down
- 1. Twelfth Night was sometimes called this
- 2. Bryson calls him Shakespeare's first "serious" rival who emerged in 1598
- 3. The "obvious" saints day that Shakespeare's baptism would have occurred
- 6. This was given to the National Portrait Gallery in 1856
- 7. Where a sketch of an original sketch made by Johannes De Witt of The Globe Theater sat unregarded for almost 300 years
- 8. The greatest fleet that 'ever swam upon the sea"
- 9. Shakespeare's mother's name
- 11. Laws that dictated who can wear what
- 13. What disease almost "carried off" Queen Elizabeth two years prior to Shakespeare's birth
- 14. Shakespeare's works contain 138,198 of these
- 18. This is never referenced in any of the plays, despite its importance
- 19. The town in which Shakespeare's will resides to this day in a box in a locked room
