Romeo and Juliet Context

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Across
  1. 1. those involved should be in love with the idea of being in love.
  2. 3. ______ had no rights or authority in law: they could not own property or money
  3. 8. Romeo and Juliet was set during a time of ________ and politics
  4. 9. For Shakespeare’s audience _____ was an exotic, distant and corrupted country
  5. 12. The father was the head of the household in this _______ society.
  6. 13. ________ were regarded as property and could be given in marriage to a suitable partner
  7. 14. _______ love (like royalty) should be polite, ceremonious, restrained, intellectual, courteous
Down
  1. 2. Many people believed that they had no free will: that they had no choice to change their _________ because everything was already ‘predestined’.
  2. 4. Children were expected to obey their parents and to ______ for money and status, so Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris would have shocked most people in an Elizabethan audience.
  3. 5. An __________ audience often chatted and did business during plays so they needed plenty of action and drama to stop them from losing focus.
  4. 6. If someone insulted your _____ or name then they would be challenged to a duel.
  5. 7. men who expressed their undying love were _________
  6. 10. Petrarchan lovers are melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress
  7. 11. Europe was a traditionally ________ society with a strong belief in damnation for mortal sin.