Across
- 2. wrote the first sonnet cycle
- 4. non-conformists
- 8. Shakespeare paid 12.5% of the cost to build
- 14. The Faerie Queen
- 15. helped generate new appreciation for Donne and his followers
- 16. a sizeable minority did not accept the Reformation
- 17. (1625-1649)
- 18. popularized pastoral verse
- 19. reigned from 1558 - 1603
- 20. Born in London to a prominent Roman Catholic family
- 21. his followers founded a republic
Down
- 1. wrote thirty - eight plays
- 3. plays in which a disaster befalls a hero or heroine
- 5. Began in Italy in the fourteenth century
- 6. official state Church as established by Henry VIII during the Reformation
- 7. plays in which a humorous situation leads to a happy resolution
- 9. defended the monarchy against the Puritans
- 10. the ability to relate dissimilar ideas, implied intellectual genius
- 11. Allegory: plot, characters, setting represent abstract ideas
- 12. comparisons between objects which at first glance seem to have nothing in common
- 13. Son of a poor tinker