Some facts about William Shakespeare.0:07
When William Shakespeare returned to Stratford Upon Avon, he had enough money to buy a nice big house for his family.0:14
They called it New Place.0:23
Sadly, you can't go and visit it today.0:26
There is a beautiful gallery in its place.0:29
Another place where Shakespeare had lived in Stratford is the house where the poet was born.0:33
There is a museum in it now.0:39
People call it the birthplace.0:42
You can also see the farmhouse where Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway had lived before they got married.0:44
But it is not in Stratford.0:52
Some of Shakespeare's plays are very long.0:58
They may last three hours or longer.1:01
The famous Hamlet is much longer than the others.1:04
At the end of the play, nearly all the characters die.1:08
But Horatio, Hamlet's friend, survives to tell Hamlet's story to people.1:11
Shakespeare's plays are rather difficult to read and understand.1:21
That's why a number of people have tried to make them more readable.1:25
For example, there is a company which makes the plays short.1:30
They perform each of the plays in an hour.1:34
Two centuries ago, Charles and Mary Lamb, who were brother and Sister, wrote 20 plays by William Shakespeare in Prosecutor to turn them into easy stories for young readers.1:37
In the 16th century there was only one bridge over the River Thames to get to the New Globe Theatre.1:53
Londoners got into boats and crossed the river.2:01
They knew that there was a new play to see when they saw a flag flying over the theatre.2:05
We know for a fact that Shakespeare had never been a university student.2:15
At the same time, his works show that he knew a lot more than some people with a very good education.2:20
That is one of the reasons why quite a number of people believe that somebody else wrote under the name of William Shakespeare.2:27
One theory says that it could be Queen Elizabeth I herself.2:35
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