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Shakespeare Plays and Characters Crossword Puzzle

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Clues are all related in some way to Shakespeare's plays and characters
Author: stedman - Diff: Harder

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      3. Brother of Viola in "Twelfth Night"
      6. Title character of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy
      8. "Please you to ...... it, that the Queen is spotless" (First Lord, "A Winter's Tale")
      10. "A part to tear a ... in" (Bottom, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
      11. Crab, in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", is Launce's pet ...
      12. One of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
      14. John ...... of Monty Python - once played Petruccio in TV version of "Taming of the Shrew"
      15. Title character of tragedy, husband of Desdemona
      17. Attendant to Cleopatra in "Anthony and Cleopatra"
      19. ... Adriano de Armado: Spanish knight in "Love's Labours Lost"
      21. Wife of Claudius and mother of 6 across
      24. Lady desired by Bertram in "All's Well That Ends Well"
      26. Ancient servant in 35 across; follows Orlando into exile
      28. "That e'er ........ tendered" (Orsino, "Twelfth Night")
      32. "... on Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!'" ("Macbeth")
      33. First name of Mistress Page, "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
      34. "Had I been any ... of power, I would have sunk the sea" (Miranda, "The Tempest")
      35. Comedy by Shakespeare (4 words: 2,3,4,2)

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      1. One of Falstaff's cronies in "Henry IV"
      2. "A ..... on both your houses" (Mercutio, "Romeo and Juliet")
      3. One of the "rude mechanicals" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
      4. "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ...?" (Twelfth Night)
      5. ".. music be the food of love, play on" (Orsino, "Twelfth Night")
      7. "In the ... of this most bloody boar" (Lord Derby, "Richard III")
      9. Doctor .....; a conjuror in "The Comedy of Errors"
      10. "Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once had not ......... all" ("King Lear")
      13. Servant to Bassanio in "The Merchant of Venice"
      16. ".. .., Brute! Then fall, Caesar" ("Julius Caesar": 2 words: 2,2)
      17. Lear's youngest daughter in "King Lear"
      18. Duke of ......; husband of Goneril in "King Lear"
      20. Follower of Falstaff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
      22. "And the .... it ....eth every day" (Refrain to Feste's song in "Twelfth Night")
      23. "6 across" is often referred to as the "Melancholy ...."
      25. "..... ..... ..... Remember me" (words of the Ghost in "Hamlet")
      27. The villainous Moor in "Titus Andronicus"
      29. "Veni, .... , Vici" (said by Julius Caesar, although not in Shakespeare's play!)
      30. "A Winter's ...." - late comedy by Shakespeare
      31. "A south-west blow .. ye" (Caliban, "The Tempest")