Old Times Cross Word

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Across
  1. 2. “who bore him a child”
  2. 4. if Shakespeare had a sister that wanted to follow in his footsteps “it would have been impossible” because she is a woman.
  3. 7. writer is being selective
  4. 8. the continuation of a sentence without a pause
Down
  1. 1. “it would have been impossible , completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare”
  2. 3. expression to call something to mind without mentioning it
  3. 5. “ then he ceased to scold her… he begged her instead not to hurt him … how could she break his heart”
  4. 6. commentary Virginia Woolf is pointing out shakespeare is taught to follow his dreams and how he went “to seek his fortune in london” his parents are supportive of him but the daughter has the hard end of the stick and has to stay home to become a wife and mother which is unfair.