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    William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England who wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays, though no original manuscripts of his works survive. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children while working as an actor in London, dying in 1616 at the age of 52, though very few other facts are known about his life beyond these basic details. While the majority of scholars believe Shakespeare was the true author of his famous literary works, some debate remains about his true identity.

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    William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England who wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays, though no original manuscripts of his works survive. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children while working as an actor in London, dying in 1616 at the age of 52, though very few other facts are known about his life beyond these basic details. While the majority of scholars believe Shakespeare was the true author of his famous literary works, some debate remains about his true identity.

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    William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England who wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays, though no original manuscripts of his works survive. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children while working as an actor in London, dying in 1616 at the age of 52, though very few other facts are known about his life beyond these basic details. While the majority of scholars believe Shakespeare was the true author of his famous literary works, some debate remains about his true identity.

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    William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England who wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays, though no original manuscripts of his works survive. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children while working as an actor in London, dying in 1616 at the age of 52, though very few other facts are known about his life beyond these basic details. While the majority of scholars believe Shakespeare was the true author of his famous literary works, some debate remains about his true identity.

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    TASK 6: VOCABULARY

    Read the text and fill the gaps with the words given below. Use each word only once. Two words are
    extra.

    age (A) facts (F) named (K)


    background (B) majority (G) part (L)
    debate (C) manuscript (H) performed (M)
    employed (D) married (I) true (N)
    example (E) name (J)

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is a great British poet and playwright. His plays are ……… (1) in many theatres
    worldwide. Very few facts are known about William Shakespeare. For ……… (2), we know that he was the
    third of eight children of John and Mary Shakespeare. He was born in 1564 and lived in the town of
    Stratford-upon-Avon in the central ……….. (3) of England. When Shakespeare was eighteen, he married a
    woman ………. (4) Anne Hathaway. They had three children. For many years Shakespeare was ………. (5)
    as an actor in London, in a theatre called The Globe. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the ……….. (6) of fifty-
    two. Apart from those basic …………. (7), not much else is known about Shakespeare’s life.

    It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays - comedies and tragedies. But no one has
    ever seen an original …….… (8) of his poems or plays, since none of them have survived. According to
    some researchers the famous tragedies and sonnets could have been created either by Francis Bacon or
    Christopher Marlowe. Only a small minority of scholars believe that there is no reason to question the
    authorship of the literary works. Today, the ….…. (9) of Shakespearean scholars think that, in spite of his
    humble educational …………. (10), the man from Stratford-upon-Avon was the ………. (11) author of the
    well-known literary works. But there are also people who disagree with this widespread opinion. Therefore,
    the ….…… (12) about Shakespeare’s identity continues.

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