Theatre in Shakespeare's time

4. The queen who supported the arts and invited playing companies over to her palaces for private court performances.
6. Richard ... (fill in his last name) was a renowned stage actor and a successful theatre entrepreneur. He played Romeo, Hamlet and other tragic characters in Shakespeare's plays.
7. A lot of Shakespeare's plays are set in ... locations. This would have been attractive to his audiences who did not travel themselves and it would transport them to a different world.
8. The iconic, open-air playhouse in London that was partly owned by Shakespeare and where his plays were performed.

1. Last name of a friend of William Shakespeare who also wrote successful plays.
2. A period of cultural rebirth in Europe, when people became interested again in art, learning, and the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome
3. A person who writes plays is a ... .
5. The original name of the playing company for which Shakespeare wrote plays during most of his career was The Lord ...'s Men. Later, its name changed to The King's Men.
6. In Elizabethan theatre, all young female parts would be played by ... .
9. Shakespeare's nickname is The Great ... .