威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare，1564年4月23日—1616年4月23日），英国文艺复兴时期剧作家、诗人，他被誉为“人类文学奥林匹斯山上的宙斯”。
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England. His father, John, was a glove-maker. His mother, Mary, was a farmer’s daughter. He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers.
威廉·莎士比亚于1564出生在英国埃文河畔斯特拉特福。他的父亲，约翰，是一个手套制造商。他的母亲玛丽是一个农民的女儿。他有两个姐姐，两个妹妹和三个弟弟。
William probably studied Latin, Greek and history, and left school when he was 14 or 15. Three years later he married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet. Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England. London’s first theater opened in 1576. Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too. In 1593 a terrible disease killed thousands of people and theaters were closed. During this time William started to write poems instead of plays. His short poems are called sonnets (十四行诗).
威廉可能学过拉丁语、希腊语和历史，并在十四五岁时离开了学校。三年后，他娶了安妮·海瑟薇。他们有一个女儿叫苏珊娜，还有一对双胞胎叫朱迪丝和哈姆内特。1590年之前的某个时候，他离开了斯特拉特福德，去了英格兰的首都伦敦。伦敦的第一家剧院于1576年开业。莎士比亚在伦敦当演员，后来也开始写剧本。1593年，一场可怕的疾病夺去了数千人的生命，剧院被迫关闭。在此期间，威廉开始写诗而不是戏剧。他的短诗被称为十四行诗。
Shakespeare helped build a new theater called The Globe. It opened in 1599. It was round and had space for 3,000 people. At The Globe some people stood in front of the stage and others had seats. The audience shouted, clapped, and laughed while they watched plays. Musicians created special noises to make the plays more exciting! No women acted in Shakespeare’s time: men and boys played all the parts.
莎士比亚帮助建造了一家名为环球剧场的新剧院。它于1599年开业。它是圆形的，可以容纳3000人。在环球剧场，一些人站在舞台前面，另一些人坐在座位上。观众在观看戏剧时欢呼、鼓掌、大笑。音乐家们制造了特殊的声音，使戏剧更加激动人心!在莎士比亚的时代，没有女人演戏，男人和男孩扮演所有的角色。
Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He wrote tragedies which had sad endings, like Romeo and Juliet. His history plays are about kings and queens, like Henry V. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, maybe more. He loved language and invented new words and expressions that we still use today.
莎士比亚写的喜剧都有幸福的结局，比如《仲夏夜之梦》。他写的悲剧结局都很悲惨，比如《罗密欧与朱丽叶》。他的历史剧是关于国王和王后的，就像《亨利五世》一样，莎士比亚写了38部戏剧，也许更多。他热爱语言，发明了我们今天仍在使用的新词和短语。
William became rich and famous. He had houses in London and in Stratford. He died when he was 52 on 23 April 1616. His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years ago and they are still popular today. People all over the world love his work because he wrote wonderful stories about very interesting people.
威廉后来名利双收。他在伦敦和斯特拉特福德都有房子。他于1616年4月23日去世，享年52岁。他的戏剧和诗歌在400年前很受欢迎，今天仍然很受欢迎。全世界的人都喜欢他的作品，因为他写了关于非常有趣的人的精彩故事。
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