Shakespeare Background & Vocabulary Terms

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