Fill in the Blanks William ShakespeareOnline version Fill in exercise William Shakespeare. by Kirsten van Schaijk 1 1610 happy poems Henry actor famous century plays three acting Hamnet Death theatre Hathaway Black tragedies death William Shakespeare is often called the world's greatest playwright . He wrote comedies , and historical plays in England in the last part of the 16th and the early 17th When William was 18 he married Anne . They had three children , first Susanna and then twins , a son named Hamnet and a daughter named Judith . died when he was 11 . From 1592 to 1594 the spread across Eng - land . Many public places were closed and plays couldn't be performed either . Shakespeare spent these years writing sonnets and . When the theatres opened up again in 1594 Shakespeare joined the best company of the country ? Lord Chamberlain's Men . It had the best actors , the best writers and the most famous ? the Globe . In the twenty years that he worked on stage Shakespeare wrote 37 . They can be put into big catego - ries : Tragedies are plays that show the downfall of a main character . His most tragedies are Hamlet , King Lear and Macbeth . Comedies are funny plays that have a end - ing most of the time . A Midsummer Night's Dream , As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor are among the most popular . Historical plays are dramas about the lives of some of England's most powerful kings like IV or Richard II . William Shakespeare retired from the theatre in and went back to his home town Stratford , where he lived until his in 1616 . At that time the people of England did not know that their country's greatest poet and playwright had died . They thought of him only as a popular and writer .
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