SHAKESPEARE & DRAMA TERMS

3. witches, ghosts, fate, magic, etc.
6. the only days that plays did not perform in Elizabethan England
8. a two-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
14. the years 1585-1592 are known as
15. Shakespeare was born
16. The good being destroyed along with the bad at the resolution of the play
17. Shakespeare is also known as the _______
18. in addition to being a playwright Shakespeare was also a
21. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of lines of poetry
22. a type of meter that contains five iambs per line
24. plays were about ______ hours long
25. Shakespeare's acting company: Lord _________'s Men
26. Shakespeare's cause of death
27. Shakespeare's dad made
28. a speech given by a single character on the stage with no other characters around to hear
31. Elizabethan theaters had no _______
32. A speech in which the speaker turns away from the other characters and reveals his true feelings to the audience (the characters next to him cannot hear what he is saying)
33. Shakespeare became a _______ in the theater, meaning he got a percentage of the earnings

1. Shakespeare appeared here in 1592
2. Shakespeare's plays were performed at the ______ theater
4. because of this, theaters were shut down in London for a year
5. rhythmic units of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up lines of meter
7. unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
9. Shakespeare's wife
10. these people were forbidden from acting
11. the process of releasing strong or pent-up emotions through art
12. a tragic flaw
13. Shakespeare's dad's name
19. In 1616, Shakespeare
20. Shakespeare's first name
23. a speech given by a single character on the stage
24. have heroic traits that earn them the sympathy of the audience, but also have flaws or make mistakes that ultimately lead to their own downfall
29. error that leads to a character's downfall
30. Shakespeare's company changed its name to: The _______'s Men