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Across 3. underside of the half-roof on an Elizabethan theater, actors playing gods or ghosts lowered from here 4. a trickster figure from a Shakespeare play 8. "All the world's a ............." 10. a dramatic speech by one actor 13. a noble sponsor of an acting company 14. Shakespeare's dad made these, you seldom need them 16. river near London's original theater district 18. a Shakespearean comedy 19. a group of actors, begins with a "c" 22. where Shakespeare went to make his fortune 23. the number of plays Shakespeare wrote (no space between parts of answer) 25. some thought he may have been the real author of Shakespeare's plays; also, a delicious breakfast meat 27. the hero of a famous Shakespearean tragedy 28. the second, and most illustrious, patron of Shakespeare's acting company 29. a play whose name is historically bad luck for actors

Down 1. a playwright who was a contemporary of Shakespeare, wrote Dr. Faustus 2. Shakespeare's other job, besides playwright 5. the century in which most of E-theater occurred 6. Aristotle came up with three of these; they were NOT used in Elizabthan theater 7. the type of verse used most often in Elizabethan plays 9. a famous theater associated with Shakespeare 11. the trickster or fool figure of Twelfth Night 12. break a......... 15. Will Shakespeare's hometown 17. type of poetry Shakespeare wrote (rhymes with "bonnet" 19. the element of Ancient Theater is used sometimes in E-theater, like the opening of Romeo and Juliet 20. this health problem often led to the theaters being closed 21. most Shakespearean comedies end with one of these 24. the person for whom this time period was named 25. To ___or not to be 26. ________doors--these were used for primitive special effects