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Across 2. Shakespeare was born in the month of 5. the division of a play 9. audience members who stood on the ground floor looking up at the stage during a play 14. Who was the monarch when Shakespeare started writing? (two words) 17. the number of lines in a sonnet 18. _______ Shakespeare 19. a speech revealing a character's private thoughts 21. Hamlet's father visits him as a 23. two lines at the close of a sonnet 25. Shakespeare married 26. a history play was shown by this color flag 27. the number of acts in a Shakespeare play 28. a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter

Down 1. Shakespeare's nickname is the ______ 3. star crossed _____ (Romeo and Juliet) 4. the division of an act in a play 6. three lines of four dividing a sonnet 7. abab cdcd efef gg is the ____ rhyme of a sonnet 8. sarcastic side comments from a character to the audience 10. Romeo and Juliet fall in 11. where Shakespeare was born (three words; no spaces) 12. the French word meaning "rebirth" as in the era of time that occured in Italy and in England 13. the number of children Shakespeare had 15. the Greek word for a tragic hero's tragic flaw 16. Shakespeare's tragic hero, prince of Denmark 20. a comedy play was shown by this color flag 22. a tragedy play was shown by this color flag 24. the climax in a Shakespeare is in Act ____