Across
- 3. the language brought by the Anglo Saxons
- 5. plays telling Bible stories
- 11. plays telling about lives of saints
- 13. quote where Hamlet is contemplating life & death
- 16. two settings of Beowulf (countries)
- 18. English period beginning around 1500
- 20. the original AUTHOR is...
- 21. recorded the Celtic history/culture
- 23. narrative song, popular in England & Scotland in Middle Ages
- 24. a long, narrative poem celebrating a hero's deeds
- 25. comment made in an undertone to the audience/another character
Down
- 1. speech given alone on stage; reveal's a characters thoughts
- 2. man who brought moveable type to Europe
- 4. author of Canterbury Tales; made English respectable
- 6. author of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
- 7. man who brought printing press to England
- 8. English 1/2 romantic languages & 1/2 Germanic
- 9. Years War, led to establishment of English as dominant language
- 10. the earliest known piece of English literature
- 12. language brought by William The Conqueror and the Normans
- 14. alphabet we currently write with
- 15. language Beowulf originally written in
- 17. Hamlet's name for "The Murder of Gonzago"
- 19. language from which "romance" languages are derived
- 22. early alphabet of Germanic invaders