stage | | "All the world's a ............." |
Marlowe | | the number of plays Shakespeare wrote (no space between parts of answer) |
thames | | a play whose name is historically bad luck for actors |
romeo | | underside of the half-roof on an Elizabethan theater, actors playing gods or ghosts lowered from here |
Puck | | the trickster or fool figure of Twelfth Night |
patron | | Will Shakespeare's hometown |
macbeth | | a trickster figure from a Shakespeare play |
blank | | Aristotle came up with three of these; they were NOT used in Elizabthan theater |
Globe | | the hero of a famous Shakespearean tragedy |
sixteenth | | river near London's original theater district |
stratford | | the type of verse used most often in Elizabethan plays |
Feste | | a famous theater associated with Shakespeare |
sonnet | | break a......... |
unities | | the element of Ancient Theater is used sometimes in E-theater, like the opening of Romeo and Juliet |
heavens | | the second, and most illustrious, patron of Shakespeare's acting company |
trap | | most Shakespearean comedies end with one of these |
company | | this health problem often led to the theaters being closed |
leg | | To ___or not to be |
tempest | | some thought he may have been the real author of Shakespeare's plays; also, a delicious breakfast meat |
bacon | | a noble sponsor of an acting company |
actor | | where Shakespeare went to make his fortune |
wedding | | type of poetry Shakespeare wrote (rhymes with "bonnet" |
soliloquy | | a playwright who was a contemporary of Shakespeare, wrote Dr. Faustus |
be | | Shakespeare's dad made these, you seldom need them |
plague | | the century in which most of E-theater occurred |
chorus | | Shakespeare's other job, besides playwright |
kingjames | | a dramatic speech by one actor |
elizabeth | | ________doors--these were used for primitive special effects |
gloves | | a Shakespearean comedy |
london | | a group of actors, begins with a "c" |
thirtyseven | | the person for whom this time period was named |