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By: 3F TUNG YI YING

The book is a biography of Shakespeare, who was born on 1564 in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church.

William Shakespeare is our probably know his name even if you haven’t read anything by him yet. He lived four hundred and fifty years ago, wrote at least thirty five plays, and more than one hundred and fifty poems. Although William Shakespeare is very famous, we don’t know a lot about him. This book will tell us the real William Shakespeare.

Many people think Shakespeare is the greatest playwrights who ever lived. Everything Shakespeare wrote has been translated into dozens of languages, from Spanish to Japanese, to Swahili. People all over the world still watch performances of his plays. Movies and Broadway musicals have been based on many of them, such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.

He is brave and persisted. He didn’t live with his family for many years. Instead, he want to London, where he became an actor, playwright, anola director of plays. He left with his family to persist his job and his hobby. He built and bought theaters. He wrote and acted in plays for the Queen of England, he made friend with powerful noble man. He could write anything. Audiences were crazy about the plays. Nothing could stop the newest talent on the London theater scene, except the Black Death. However, he was still writing. He is brave to fight with Black Death.

The most memorable quote from the book is: Elizabeth Queen of England. It was because Elizabeth was the powerful noble men. She made friend with William Shakespeare and save him.