Shakespearean

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt (9)
  2. 6. The principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem (4)
  3. 7. A settlement smaller than a town (6)
  4. 9. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)
  5. 11. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three (4)
  6. 12. A polite name for any woman (4)
  7. 14. United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (6)
  8. 15. An ardent male lover (5)

Down

  1. 1. King of Scotland (7)
  2. 2. A violent commotion or disturbance (7)
  3. 3. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife (7)
  4. 5. The capital and largest city of Greece (6)
  5. 8. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars (6)
  6. 10. Emperor of Rome (5)
  7. 13. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into (4)