Shakespeare's Life and Work

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Across
  1. 1. The town where Shakespeare was born
  2. 6. Shakespeare often wrote in this unrhymed poetic form - blank___
  3. 8. One of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedies about a Scottish king.
  4. 11. The rhythmic pattern used by the witches in Macbeth
  5. 13. A famous comedy involving fairies A ___ Night's Dream
  6. 16. A deadly disease that often closed London theatres
  7. 17. People who stood in the theatre yard to watch plays cheaply
  8. 18. Pairs of rhyming lines often used to end scenes in Shakespeare’s plays
Down
  1. 2. First name of Shakespeare’s wife
  2. 3. The king who ruled after Elizabeth I
  3. 4. Supernatural characters in Macbeth
  4. 5. Where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed
  5. 7. The ruling queen during most of Shakespeare’s early career. (9)
  6. 9. -House - where the actors put on their costumes.
  7. 10. - pentameter,the rhythm of Shakespeare's writing syllables
  8. 12. Play set in Denmark
  9. 14. Shakespeare’s famous speech '7 _______ of Man.'
  10. 15. Shakespeare’s famous acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s _____