Across
- 5. number of lines in a sonnet
- 7. number of children that Shakespeare had
- 8. Romeo's cousin, wants to make peace
- 11. the prologue is an example of this type of poem
- 12. Shakespeare's wife
- 13. contagious disease that was present at the time
- 14. Juliet's cousin, wants to escalate the fighting
- 15. all of Shakespeare's actors would have been this gender
- 16. the third act of Shakespeare's plays, the plot shifts unexpectedly
- 17. Shakespeare's wife was _______ than he was.
- 18. Romeo's family
- 20. number of acts in shakespeare's plays
- 21. capital of England, where Shakespeare spent most of his adult life
Down
- 1. Shakespeare's son, dies at age 11
- 2. Queen of England during most of Shakespeare's life
- 3. what happens to Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play
- 4. setting of the play
- 5. the unraveling of the plot as the plot concludes
- 6. introduces the characters, setting and conflicts
- 9. Shakespeare was born and buried there
- 10. Juliet's family
- 19. an insulting gesture, similar to the middle finger
