![]() Most people think of Shakespeare as a writer. Shakespeare moved to London in the late fifteen eighties to be at the center of the city's busy theater life. The couple had three children, two daughters and a son who died very young. He married Anne Hathaway at the age of eighteen. William Shakespeare was born in fifteen sixty-four in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. His works are as fresh today as they were four hundred years ago. Shakespeare's universal stories show all the human emotions and conflicts. They have become part of the English language. ![]() He invented thousands of words to color his works. ![]() "Romeo and Juliet" shows how William Shakespeare’s plays shine with extraordinarily rich and imaginative language. The young lovers secretly marry, but their story has a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet are surrounded by violent fighting and generational conflict. But their families, the Capulets and the Montagues, are enemies and will not allow them to be together. It tells about two young people who meet and fall deeply in love. You just heard part of a famous scene from a movie version of “Romeo and Juliet." This tragic play remains one of the greatest, and perhaps most famous, love stories ever told. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? ![]() For more than four hundred years, people around the world and in many cultures have been reading, watching and listening to the plays and poetry of the English writer William Shakespeare. Today, Steve Ember and Barbara Klein tell us about one of the most influential and skillful writers in the history of literature. Welcome to EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.
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