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Brush Up Your Shakespeare 2 Crossword Puzzle

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Or Crossing the Bar(d). My second attempt to highlight Shakespeare's work and times in a crossword. Be prepared to Google some answers.
Author: windrush - Diff: Harder

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      1. Play, 'the Life of ___ of Athens' (5)
      4. Henry VI, 4-1, ".. Are you not ashamed With this __ clamorous outrage" (8)
      10. On seeing his friend ___ death in a duel, Romeo kills Tybalt (8'1)
      11. Violent and bloodthirsty play, "___ Andronicus" (5)
      12. Address of a web page, inits (3)
      13. Plants, such as some orchids, that grow on other plants (9)
      14. To pay a man's reckoning, Referred to by Hamlet (2-2,360) to Rosencrantz (5)
      15. Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1-2, "like a __ babe, will scratch a nurse" (5)
      18. Henry IV', Hotspur's wife, Kate (4,5)
      22. Comic character in 'Twelfth Night', Sir Andrew ___ (9)
      27. Clusters of grass or hair (5)
      30. Flamboyant bachelor, 'Measure for Measure', friend of Claudio (5)
      31. Title character, British king in Roman times (9)
      32. Decision making body of the WHO in Geneva, inits (3)
      33. Captain in 'Twelfth Night' 1-2, "Where like __ on the dolphin's back" (5)
      34. In 'Hamlet' 4-4, nationality of Fortinbras (9)
      35. Honorific for the 'Merry Wives of Windsor' __ Ford and Page (8)
      36. Agave plant used in making rope fibre (5)

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      1. Play set mainly on Prospero's Isle, 'The __' (7)
      2. Coriolanus, the forenames of the eponymous hero were Caius ___ (7)
      3. Troilus and Cressida, Cressida to Pandarus, "Go hang yourself, you __ mocking uncle" (7)
      5. Othello', Desdemona wonders what she has done to be so ___ (badly treated) (7)
      6. Thrust ahead of others, arch. (7)
      7. One who tempts others (7)
      8. Abbreviation often used by the bard, stating a fact (3)
      9. Swaggering but cowardly soldier, in 3 plays including Henry V (6)
      16. Unit of energy (3)
      17. Macbeth' 4-1, 2nd Witch, "Eye of newt, and __ of frog" (3)
      19. 'Measure for Measure' 2-2, Isabella: "his glassy essence, like an angry __"
      20. French coin mentioned in Shakespeare (3)
      21. Witches' companion, Grimalkin (3)
      22. Everyone or everything (3)
      23. The Tempest', Prospero, ?__ Shall forth at vast of night that they may work' (7)
      24. Hamlet', 5-1, "The ___ hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial" (7)
      25. In 'Pericles', a lord of Tyre, trusted by Helicanus (7)
      26. Sweet potato, named for a place in New Zealand (6)
      27. Duke of Athens in 'a Midsummer-night's dream' (7)
      28. In 'a Mid-summer Night's Dream', Titania, queen of the ___ (7)
      29. Relating to the breastbone
      33. Try to reach a target (3)