William Shakespeare was a poet and playwright.He is widely considered（1）

to be

to be

（ be） the greatest writer in the English language.He was born in（2）

central

central

（ center） England in 1564 and died in 1616.His surviving works（3）

include

include

（ include） thirty- eight plays and more than one hundred and fifty poems.His plays are so popular（4）

that

that

they have been translated into every major language.Shakespeare's plays are performed more often than any other playwright's work.
    After the death of his parents，he and his sister lived with his mother's brother.At school，he liked watching plays.He made a decision to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen.When Shakespeare was in（5）

his

his

（ he） early twenties，he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children.When he was twenty-eight，he moved to London and joined 'a theater company，working（6）

as

as

an actor and writer.He got almost no money from his writing，but he made a lot of money from actjye.aig.In 1599，the theatre company built the Globe Theatre where some of Shakespeare's plays were（7）

firstly

firstly

（ one） performed.In 1613，the theatre（8）

was destroyed

was destroyed

（ destroy） by a fire.However，（9）

the

the

modern reconstruction（重建） of it was built near the original site in 1997.This means you can go to the Globe Theatre and see one of Shakespeare's （10）

plays

plays

（play） today!