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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford ﹣upon﹣Avon， in England． His father， John，was a glove﹣maker． His mother， Mary， was a farmer's （1）　　. He had two elder sisters， two younger sisters and three younger brothers．

    William probably studied Latin， Greek and history， and （2）　　school when he was 14 or 15．Three years （3）　　he married Anne Hathaway． They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet． Sometime before 1590 he let Stratford﹣upon﹣Avon and went to London，the capital of England．

    London's first theater opened in 1576． Shakespeare worked in London （4）　　an actor and then started writing plays too． In 1593 the（5 ）　　plague （瘟疫） killed thousands of people and theaters were closed． During this time William started to write poems instead of plays． His short poems are called sonnets（十四行诗）．

    Shakespeare helped build a new theater called The Globe． It opened in 1599． It was round and had space for 3，000 people． The audience （观众） shouted， clapped （拍手喝彩） and laughed while they（6）　　plays．

      Shakespeare wrote many comedies， tragedies and history plays．He became rich and （7）　 　. He loved language and invented new words and expressions that we（8）　　use today．He died（9）　　 he was 52． People all over the world love his works（10）　　he wrote wonderful stories about very interesting people．