For more than four hundred years, people all over the world have been reading ,watching and listening to the plays and poetry of the British writer William Shakespeare.
Most people think of Shakespeare as a writer. But he was also a theater producer, a part owner of an acting company and an actor. For most of his career, he was a producer and main writer for an acting company called the King’s Men. Shakespeare is best known for the thirty—nine plays that he wrote, although only thirty—eight exist today. His plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and tragedies. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet ,Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and so on.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of 14.He married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18.The couple had three children, two daughters and a son who died very young. In 1585,Shakespeare left his hometown. No one knows why he left or moved to London and joined a theater company which opened the Globe Theater in 1599.He made much money from it.He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He died in 1616. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. Now you can still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.
小题1:What was Shakespeare?
A．A writer
B．An actor
C．A theater producer
D．A,B and C小题2:Shakespeare made much money from_______.
A．writing
B．acting
C．opening the Globe Theater
D．selling his books小题3:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “genius” in the passage?
A．房子
B．遗憾
C．悔恨
D．天赋小题4:Which sentence is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．Shakespeare died when he was 52 years old.
B．Shakespeare married in 1582,and he had two daughters and a son.
C．Shakespeare’s plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and science fictions.
D．No one knows why Shakespeare left his hometown at he age of 21.
