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William Shakespeare 4.
Mgr. Helena Slaninová
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2. William Shakespeare
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3. Answer the questions
1. ) What was his nationality and where was he born?
2.) What was his profession?
a.) b.)
3. ) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) b.) c.) d.)
e.) f.)
4.) What is he called in England and regarding Stratford upon Avon?
5.) Who did he marry and how many children did he have?
6.) How old were they when they got married?
7.) Can you name any speculations regarding William Shakespeare?
8.) What is his theatre called and where is it situated?

4. Answer the questions 9.) Can you name any 4 comedies?
10.) Can you name any 4 tragedies?
11.) Can you name any tragicomedies (or romances)?
12.) What is the story Romeo and Julie about?
13.) What is the ending of Romeo and Juliet?
14.) What is your opinion about „Romeo and Juliet“?
15.) Why do you think William Shakespeare is still so popular nowadays?

5. Answers
1. ) What was his nationality and where was he born? – English, Stratford upon Avon
2.) What was his profession?
a.) poet b.) playwright
3. ) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) comedies b.) tragedies c.) tragicomedies d.) poems
e.) sonnets f.) long narrative poems (g.) historical plays (h.) romances
4.) What is he called in England and regarding Stratford upon Avon?
England´s national poet, Bard od Avon
5.) Who did he marry and how many children did he have?
Anne Hathaway, 3 children Susanna, twins Hamnet and Judith.
6.) How old were they when they got married? Him – 19, her - 26
7.) Can you name any speculations regarding William Shakespeare?
E.g. About his physical appearance, religious belief and whether he wrote his works himself or were written by others.

6. Answers
8.) What is his theatre called and where is it situated? The Globe in London
9.) Can you name any 4 comedies?
The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night´s Dream,
Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
10.) Can you name any 4 tragedies?
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Mackbeth,
Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolonus
11.) Can you name any tragicomedies (or romances)?
Cambeline, The Winter´s Tale, The Tempest
11.) What is the story Romeo and Julie about?
Two young lovers, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montaque. These families hate each other, they meet and fall in love at Capulet ball where Count Paris wants to marry her later. Juliet´s cousin Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, Tybalt hurts Mercutio who dies and Romeo then kills Tybalt. Friar Laurence helps Julia and Romeo to get married and prepares a special drug for Julia to look as if she was dead.

7. Answers 13.) What is the ending of Romeo and Juliet?
Juliet takes the drug on night before the wedding with Count Paris and she is laid in the family crypt. Romeo learns about „her death“ and buys poison and goes to the crypt. There he meets Paris and kills him. Romeo drinks the poison thinking Juliet is really dead. Juliet awakens and finding Romeo dead, she stabs herself.
14.) What is your opinion about „Romeo and Juliet“?
Students´own answers.
15.) Why do you think William Shakespeare is still so popular nowadays?

8. Použité zdroje
AUTOR NEUVEDEN. en.wikipedia.or [online]. [cit ]. Dostupný na WWW: (foto)
AUTOR NEUVEDEN. William Shakespeare [online]. [cit ]. Dostupný na WWW:
AUTOR NEUVEDEN. Romeo and Juliet [online]. [cit ]. Dostupný na WWW:
Text – autorka DUMu Mgr. Helena Slaninová