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Drama Unit: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
NAME___________________________________________________________________ Date_______________
ACROSS
DOWN
1. Time period in which Shakespeare lived
4. When an actor talks to the audience and the other actors
“pretend” they can’t hear what’s being said
6. Roman fertility festival, the Feast of ______________
8. Wheat, rye, or pumpernickel
10. Julius Caesar has a “big” one of these
12. To gain a point in a competitive game
13. Brutus’s tragic flaw
14. Theme from Julius Caesar: “The ____________ for
__________ and what it does to men”
17. Married to Portia
18. United States of America abbrev.
20. Decius uses “this” to get Caesar to go to the senate
21. Deliberate action, attitude, or thought that goes against
God
23. Main character of a tragedy who usually dies (2 words)
24. _____________ and Marullus, tribunes of the people
25. The opposite of what you intend or mean
28. Former NFL running back who killed his wife and her
friend and was acquitted of those murders
31. Money machine
32. A straight line about which a body or geometric object
rotates or may be conceived to rotate or in mathematics,
an unlimited line, half-line, or line segment
33. Iambic _____________________
34. Never married or had children
37. Couch
38. Jedi master who trains Luke Skywalker
39. Sound used to express strong distaste or disgust
1.
2.
3.
5.
Repeating of words or phrases
“Beware the __________ of March!”
A long speech by a character ALONE on stage
continuous body of salt water covering most of the
earth's surface
7. Assassinated for his ambition
8. A web site containing the writer's or group of writers'
own experiences, observations, opinions
9. Clues or hints of events that will happen later in a story
11. Julius Caesar’s nephew
15. Name of place where Shakespeare’s plays were
Performed (two words)
16. Repeating the same grammatical structure in a speech
17. Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (2 words)
19. Sports Illustrated abbrev.
22. Singer, Lady _______
24. Not allowed on stage during Shakespeare’s time
26. Bird of night that appeared at noon-day; a bad omen
27. Casear’s wife, Calpurnia, had one of “these” in which
she saw her husband’s statue spouting blood like a
fountain
29. Style of music originated by black Americans that has a
forceful rhythm and that often uses instruments like
trumpets, a string bass and a saxophone
30. His speech caused the Roman people to mutiny
33. A play on words
35. Played the female parts on stage during Shakespeare’s
time
36. Opposite of “on”
1.