William Shakespeare ____ in 1564. He ____ in ____-upon-Avon. He probably ____ school when he was 7 years old and left it at the age of 14. We do not know, whether he went to ____. At the age of 18, he ____ to Anne Hathaway. They ____ three children together, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. After a while he left the town and ____ to London and ____ as an actor. He quickly became famous as a ____. He ____ many famous plays. In 1611, he returned to Stratford-upon-Avon and ____ there in 1616. He ____ probably the greatest writer in the English language. William Shakespeare´s work consists of plays, ____ and long poems. His plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than other ____. When he moved to London, he started to work as an ____ and to write ____ (e.g. A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing) and ____ plays (Richard III, Henry IV). Later he wrote mainly ____, including ____, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered one of the best works in English. Altogether there are 37 plays published by him. He even bought his own ____ called The ____. The audience in the 16th century, as well as the Queen ____ I, loved his work. His plays were extremely ____. There were no ____ on stage in that period as acting was considered bad and full of sin; all roles were acted by ____. Shakespeare´s language is full of ____, puns (slovní hříčky), ambiguities (dvojsmysly), jokes, sexual allusions, etc. That is why they were liked so much. All William Shakespeare´s word was ____ into Czech by Martin Hilský so we can enjoy a mondern translation on ____.

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