William Shakespeare was one of the greatest and most famous English ____. He wrote at least 30 ____and introduced many new ____ to the English language. Strangely, he was ____and died on the same date - the 23rd of April, so many people remember him and his work on this day. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He had five brothers and sisters and his father was an ____ man. Shakespeare learned ____at school, as well as poetry and history. At 18, he ____ Anne Hathaway and they had three children. Shakespeare and his family moved to London and he worked for a ____ as an actor and writer. Shakespeare wrote many popular plays for the company to ____, including the famous Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was played by a man, as women ____ to perform on stage. In 1597, Shakespeare’s theatre company had a problem. The company ____ the theatre building but not the land that it was built on. When the ____ tried to sell the land, all the actors in the company decided ____the theatre building to a new place across the River Thames. They called their new theatre "The Globe." The Globe became ____ theatre in London. 3,000 people could watch plays there - but most of them had to ____. There was a special ____ with scenery and musicians played music and made sound effects during the plays. They even had a ____ Shakespeare continued to write. His plays from this time were more serious, including Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. Kings and queens asked for his plays to be performed for them. He also ____ a book of poetry in 1609. Shakespeare became very ____ and bought a large house in Stratford for his family. He ____ to Stratford and died on his 52nd birthday in 1616. The Globe theatre was ____in a fire in 1613 - probably started by the cannon. It was ____ but closed again in 1642. However, in 1997, a new Globe Theatre was built on the south side of the Thames. The new Globe is built in the same style as the old one, but with some changes to make it ____ and more ____. People continue to ____ Shakespeare’s plays here.

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