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Some facts about William Shakespeare.

One.

When William Shakespeare returned to Stratford upon Avon, he had enough money to buy a nice big house for his family. They called it New Place. Sadly, you can't go and visit it today. There is a beautiful gallery in its place now. Another place where Shakespeare had lived in Stratford is the house where the poet was born. There is a museum in it now. People call it the birthplace. You can also see the farmhouse where Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, had lived before they got married, but it is not in Stratford.

Two.

Some of Shakespeare's plays are very long. They may last three hours or longer. The famous Hamlet is much longer than the others. At the end of the play, nearly all the characters die, but Horatio, Hamlet's friend, survives to tell Hamlet's story to people.

Three.

Shakespeare's plays are rather difficult to read and understand. That's why a number of people have tried to make them more readable. For example, there is a company which makes the plays short. They perform each of the plays in an hour. Two centuries ago, Charles and Mary Lamb, who were brother and sister, wrote twenty plays by William Shakespeare in prose to turn them into easy stories for young readers.

Four.

In the sixteenth century, there was only one bridge over the River Thames. To get to the new Globe Theatre, Londoners got into boats and crossed the river. They knew that there was a new play to see when they saw a flag flying over the theatre.

Five.

We know for a fact that Shakespeare had never been a university student. At the same time, his works show that he knew a lot, more than some people with a very good education. That is one of the reasons why quite a number of people believe that somebody else wrote under the name of William Shakespeare. One theory says that it could be Queen Elizabeth the First herself.