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are e:oming to Elsinore! tomorrow?
3 Read about Shakespeare and his plays. Answer the questions on page 44. You can
use a dictionary.

illiam. Shakespeare was born in 1564,
Win Stratford-upon-Avon, 111 England.
Nobody is sure of the day when he was born,
but we know the year.
He became an actor and moved to London. He
wrote plays for the theatre, and he wrote poetry.
He soon became one of the most famous
writers in England - and also in the world. You
can read his plays in many languages and can
go to see his plays in most countries.
Shakespeare wrote many plays - 37, and
perhaps more. These include The Te mp est,
Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Julius
Caesar. Ham.let is one of h_is most famous plays.
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Today/ for one afternoon nly! He wrote it in about 1600, when Elizabeth I
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William Shakespeare died in 1616.
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and the death ot a king!
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