| SHAKESPEARE | Lord Chamberlain's Men performed his plays (11) |
| OUTDOOR | Better men performed in the Open |
| JONSON | Dramatist who collaborated with Inigo Jones, his play Every Man in His Humour was performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1598 with Shakespeare in the cast (6) |
| THEGLOBETHEATRE | Lord Chamberlain's Men built it |
| SHOWSTOPPER | Formerly Lord Chamberlain's turn? (4,7) |
| ROSE | Historic London playhouse that was abandoned in 1605 after Lord Chamberlain's Men built the Globe, t |
| THEGLOBE | ___ ___ Theatre, Elizabethan playhouse associated with Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men (3,5) |
| ELIZABETHAN | *Era in which Shakespeare wrote most of his plays |
| APPEASEMENT | Almost seem ready to recruit soldiers: Chamberlain's policy? |
| BLACKROD | Chief usher of the Lord Chamberlain's department (5,3) |
| CANA | Village in northern Palestine where Jesus performed His first miracle (4) |
| PLUTARCH | Greek biographer and philosopher, noted for his Parallel Lives, from which Shakespeare drew information for his plays |
| INGE | One of his plays was filmed as "The Stripper" in 1963 |
| IBSEN | His plays are popular around British Home Counties |
| ERNIEWISE | Comedy performer famed for his plays “what I wrote” |
| AMATEUR | He makes no money out of his plays (7) |
| FAVORITESIMON | Of all of his plays, perhaps "The Odd Couple"? |
| RODSTEWART | Singer who performed his song "Infatuation" to open the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984: 2 wds. |
| ALLYMCBEAL | Josh Groban performed his song "You're Still You" on a 2001 episode of this dramedy (2 wds.) |
| EMILE | _ John, has performed his last scenes as Emmerdale's tragic Ethan (5) |
