William Shakespeare was the (1)__________ writer in the English language. He was born in 1564 in Stratford- upon- Avon. (2)__________ the age of eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, (3)__________ was eight years (4)__________ than himself. A few years later he moved to London, (5)__________ he worked as a actor and a playwright. Shakespeare (6)__________ thirty seven plays and 154 sonnets (a kind of poem). His most famous plays are the four great tragedies - Othelo, Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. Shakespeare died in Stratford (7)__________ 23 April 1616, but his plays are still very popular today. They have been translated into different languages, and many of them have been (8)__________ into films, both in English and other languages. Shakespeare's plays are about the great issues of life - love, hatred, jealousy, power, ambition, (9)__________ and so on. So, his plays are just relevant today as they were in the sixteenth (10)__________.