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   William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in a town called Strjye.aiford-upon-Avon.At the age of six or seven，Shakespeare began school，studying Latin，Greek，literature and other s（1）

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.But seven years later，when his father failed in business，Shakespeare dropped out of school to help his father.In the 1560s and 70s he saw plays by the travelling theatre groups touring Stratford.Shakespeare got m（2）

arried

arried

to Anne Hathaway at the age of 18.They had three children.Shakespeare s（3）

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went to London in 1586.He was thought to have spent most of his time in London writing and performing in his plays.
   In the beginning，Shakespeare worked as a groom（馬夫）at a t（4）

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heatre

.In his spare time，he liked to watch performances on the stage（舞臺(tái)）there.When the company needed extra actors，he took on supporting r（5）

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oles

.At that time，the theatre companies in London were in need of plays.Shakespeare began to write plays just a（6）

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he learned acting skills.
   In the early 1590s，Shakespeare wrote his first historical play c（7）

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Henry VI.After the play was put on，it became a huge hit.His early plays were mainly comedies and histories.Shakespeare then wrote mainly tragedies（悲?。﹗（8）

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about 1608，including Handel，Othello，King Lear，and Macbeth.In his later part of life，he wrote tragicomedies （悲喜?。?，also known as romances.
   Around 1613，at the age of 49，he r（9）

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eturned

to his hometown Stratford，where he died three years later.It was on 23 April 1616.
   William Shakespeare is widely considered the g（10）

reatest

reatest

writer in the English language.He wrote about 38 plays，154 sonnets（十四行詩(shī)），two long narrative poems，and some other works.His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwrights.