1. William Shakespeare Enrico Matteini

2. Shakespeare’s life Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon,England. When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway.They had 3 children. In 1592 he went to London to work as actor and playwright.He wrote 154 poems and 37 plays. He died a rich man in 1616 and he gave most of his land to Susannah,his first child.

3. The Globe Theatre It was built by Shakespeare and his company in 1599 on the south bank of River Themes It was a round building open to the sky.If it rained, people got wet or wasn’t performance. People who wanted to stay sit or shelter from the rain paid 2 or 3 pence and they could sit in the galleries. There weren’t actress because women not allowed to act. Young man played female roles The building burnt in 1613.At the end of the 1990s a new theatre was built in the same site.

4. Romeo and Juliet It is written by Shakespeare in 1595. It is set in Verona.The main characters are Romeo (Lord Montegue’s son) and Juliet (Lord Capulet’s daughter). They belong to two families that hate each other.They meet at a masqueparty at Capulet’s mansion and they fall in love. They get married in a secret wedding in the chaple celebrated by Friar Laurence. Tybald,Juliet’s causin, kills Mercutio, Romeo’s causin, during a civil browl.Romeo kills Tybald to aarage Mercutio and he is banished from Verona to Mantua.

5. Juliet drinks a poisoned potions that gives her an apparent death. She sends a letter to Romeo to explain this but he never recives it. When Romeo come back to Verona and he finds the Juliet’s sleeping body in the Capulet’s tomb, he decides to kill himself When Juliet wakes up and discovers that Romeo is died, she kill herself The death of the two young lovers ends the war between Capulet and Montague. Romeo and Juliet

6. Hamlet It is written by Shakespeare in 1601. It is set in Denmark. The king (Hamlet’s father) has been died and her wife Gertrude get married her brother in law Claudio. Hamlet and his friend Horatio meet a ghost that look like the death king.He said that he has been killed by Claudio who puored poison in his ear while he was sleeping.He asks to avarage him. Hamlet pretends to be mad and organizes a play for the court, “The murder of Gonzago” Tha play is performed and Claudio crashes away.He decides to send Hamlet in England to kill him.Meanwhile Hamlet kills Polonius,the king’s conseillor. Ofhelia,Hamlet’s girlfriend, goes mad and she kills herself.

7. Laerte,Ofhelia’s brother, wants to avarage her and he plots with the king a duel. Hamlet came back from England and there is a duel between laerte and him.Both are wonded by a poisoned sword. Gertrude drinks a poisoned wine and she died. Claudio is killed by Hamlet before dying. In the end, the king of Norway, Fortinbras, become the new king of Denmark. Hamlet

8. Films There are over 250 films of Shakespeare’s plays.Some of these are films of his most famous plays including “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Some are set in modern day,like a version of Romeo and Juliet set In modern day in “verona beach” (Miami). Many films use a Shakespeare story but with new words and a modern twist. Some films are inspired by Shakespeare but are not originally plays that he wrote.

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