William Shakespeare γ΄δημοτικού
William Shakespeare is one of the world’s most famous writers. He wrote plays for the theatre. He also wrote poems.
William Shakespeare was born in 1564. He grew up in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Plays Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays.He wrote comedies,stories with a happy ending.A Midsummer Night’s dream is a comedy with fairies and humans.He wrote tragedies with sad ending.Hamlet is a tragedy because at the end he dies.Romeo and Juliet is also a tragedy because the young lovers both die.
The globe theatre The theatre was built in 1598.It was round.They called it Globe. It was open to the sky and plays began at 2 in the afternoon. In Shakespeare’s time there were no women actors. Women’s parts were played by boys. Plays had exciting special effects.There were ghosts, witches,flames and smoke.
Poems Shakespeare wrote some long poems,and lots of short poems called sonnets.
‘To be,or not to be,that is the question.’
from Hamlet by W.Shakespeare