(
课件网) ■ Wha北was he2 海 编 Where was he From Can you list his famous works 7 Unit 2 He decided to be an actor. d⑤EE心EE The life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems.He wrote about thirty-eight plays.154 short poems and a few long poems in his life.Two of his famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford,England.Like many people 400 years ago,Shakespeare's parents didn't learn to read or write.At school he liked plays.so he decided to be an actor when he finished school at fourteen.He married in 1582 and had three children. Shakespeare went to London and joined a theatre company in about 1592.He became a successful actor and began to the old theatre.They built it again in write plays.Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his 1614 and in the 1990s. works very much. William Shakespeare died at the In 1599 the company built the Globe age of fifty-two.He was rich and Theatre on the River Thames in London. successful.You can still see his plays in You can visit the theatre today,but it isn't English and in many other languages. the same building.There was a fire in He's famous around the world.
