| "I am not bound to please thee with my answers." -William Shakespeare |
| William Shakespeare's Plays William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of all time. He wrote many plays including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and many others. Even though he wrtoe these plays hundreds of years ago, they are still reenacted today. His most famous play is Romeo and Juliet. It is a play about the love of a man and a women from different families. Romeo's and Juliets families are in the midst of a fued, but this does not stop them from falling in love. Friar Lawrence Marries them, hoping it will end the feud. Juliet, now must marry a man called Paris. Unable to marry him, or inform her parents of her marriage to Romeo, she asks the Friar to help them become reunited. She fakes her death and the friar sends Romeo a message that she has faked her death. However this message never reaches him and he decides to take his own life at her tomb. When Juliet wakes up with Romeo, dead, next to her, she takes her own life with his dagger. Soon after their paretns find their bodies and decide to end the fued and erect golden statues of each of them next to each other. Another of Shakespeares plays is Macbeth. It is centered around the dangers of greed. It starts out with a prophecy from three witches that Macbeth will soon become a thane, Scotish nobility, and then a king. Banquo, his companion, would be the father of the first a line of kings to proceed Macbeth. Soon after Macbeth was declared a thane. However he is sceptical about the second part of the prophecy. His wife wants him to become king so badly, that she gets the kings guards drunk and has Macbeth murder the king. Fearful that they are in danger, the kings sons flee the country. Since he wants his own heir to succeed him, he sends assassins to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Banquo is killed, but Fleance gets away. So Macbeth goes to see the three witches who told him the prophecy, and they say that he can't be killed by a man born of a woman and he will not be harmed until Burnham wood comes to his castle. He now feels secure, because it is impossible to move a forest and women give birth to all men. Seeing these events a noble man called Macduff flees his castle and Macbeth seizes it, and kills his wife and children. Macduff then joins in a rebellion against Macbeth. To fufill the witches prophecy they are protected with wood from Burnham Woods. In a battle Macduff kills Macbeth claiming that he was not " 'of woman born' but 'untimely ripped' from his mothers whom." The kings son Malcom son is declared king. These are only two of the many brilliant plays written by William Shakespeare. |
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| "I pray thet you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires." -William Shakespeare |
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| Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare |
| Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare |
| Hamlet by Shakespeare |
| Macbeth By Shakespeare |
| Other Shakespeare Websites |
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| Shakespeare was born in Warwick (the big red area), a division of england roughly 100 miles Northwest of London. |
