Shakespeare Background & Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Disease that repeatedly closed the theaters in Shakespeare’s time.
  2. 4. Open-roof theaters of Shakespeare's time relied on ______
  3. 6. Speech delivered alone on stage to reveal a character’s inner thoughts
  4. 7. A fatal weakness or error in judgment that leads to a tragic hero’s downfall
  5. 10. Major divisions of a play, usually five total in Shakespeare's plays
  6. 12. Individual spoken units of dialogue in a play script, usually numbered
  7. 15. When a speaker says one thing but means another
  8. 20. Shakespeare’s company before 1603, the Lord ________’s Men
  9. 21. River running through Shakespeare’s hometown
  10. 24. Category of Shakespeare’s plays known for happy endings and humor
  11. 25. When the audience knows something that the characters do not
  12. 26. Category of Shakespeare’s plays that end in death
Down
  1. 1. Category of Shakespeare’s plays focusing on English monarchs
  2. 3. Queen ruling during Shakespeare’s early career
  3. 5. When an outcome is the opposite of what is expected
  4. 8. When a character on stage speaks so that only the audience or certain other characters hear
  5. 9. Shakespeare’s father’s trade
  6. 11. _______ played women's role on stage
  7. 13. Shakespeare’s birthplace
  8. 14. People who stood in the theater yard for a penny
  9. 16. Central character whose downfall is caused partly by fate and partly by personal error
  10. 17. Monarch who granted Shakespeare’s company royal patronage in 1603
  11. 18. Long speech delivered by a single character to others on stage
  12. 19. Form of poem Shakespeare mastered: 14 lines, specific rhyme scheme
  13. 21. Shakespeare’s profession besides playwright
  14. 22. Shakespeare was born and died on the same day in ______.
  15. 23. Smaller sections within acts that indicate a change in setting or characters