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Shakespeare’s life • Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. He married when he was 18 years with a women 8 years older them him; and he had 3 children. He studied Latin and Greek al school and he never went to university. He went to London to work as actor and playwright. He was also a good businessman. He died a rich man in 1616 and ha gave most of his land to Susannah, his first child.
Shakespeare’s films • There are over 250 films of Shakespeare’s plays. The most famous version of Romeo and Juliet was “West Side Story” made in 1961.. Some films are ispired by Shakespeare but don’t use the twist that he wrote, like Shakespeare in Love.
Shakespeare’s plays • William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays. The most famous was: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Jiuliet and Hamlet.
Romeo and Juliet • Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written in 1595. Romeo and Juliet meet al party at Capulet’s mancion and they soon fall in love. Later there is a secret wedding af the two lovers celebrated in the chapel by friar Laurence. Tybalt, Juliet cousin’s, kills Mercutio, Romeo cousin’s, during a duil. Romeo kills Tybalt and he his banished from Verona to Mantoa. With the help of friar Laurence Juliet drinks a poisoned poncion that guves her an apparent death. She sends a letter to Mantoa to explain it to Romeo, but he never receives it. When Romeo comes back to Verona and finds Juliet’s sleeping body in her family tomb he believes her to be dead. He decides to kill him self; than Juliet wakes up from her sleep and insert a dagger in to her heart. The death of the young couple ands the feud between.
Hamlet • Hamlet is a tragedy written in 1601. It is set in Danmark. In the first act a ghost that luchs like the dead king has appired at al sinore castel. Hamlet and his firend Horatio meet it at night and the ghost talls Hamlet that his father has been killed by Claudius who poured poison in his ears while he was sleeping. In the second act Hamlet pretend to be mad and organised a play called “The murder of Gondago”. In the third act the play id performed and Claudius rushed away. He dicedes to setd Hamlet to England to kill him. Mean while Hamlet kills polonius, the king’s consellor, in her mother’s bedroom. In the sourth act Ophelia, Hamlet’s girlfriend, goes mad and drowns her self. Her brother, Laertes, wants to avenge her and he plots together with the kinga duel. In the fifth act Hamlet goes back from England and there is a duel betweem Laertes and him, where both are wounded by a polsoned sword. Gertrude drinks a cap of poisoned wine and died and Claudius his stabbed by Hamlet before dying. I n the end Fortintbras, the king of Norway, becomes the new king of Danmark.
The Globe Theatre • Shakespeare and his company built the Globe Theatre in 1599 on the south bank of the river Thames. The Globe Theatre was a round building open to the sky: if it rained, the actor and the public got wet. If the weather was too bad there was no performance. Most of the spactators had to stand in the yard and some of them watched the play leaned on the stage. They only paid one penny, but the people who wanted some shelter from the rain paid two pence and they could sit in the galleries. There were three covered galleries with sitting seatsm all around the theatre yard. Unfortunately there was a big fire in 1613 and the theatre burned down. The new Globe Theatre was built near the same site in London, following the original design and has become one of London’s most popular attractions.
