Bryson's Shakespeare

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