William Shakespeare

6. even though many of them would have the greatest of difficulty in understanding Shakespeare's Elizabethan English.--Shakespeare lived
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth(1558-1603).The English language used in that period is called Elizbethan English, which is classified as early modern English and which is different from present-day English in many respects, such as pronunciation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary. That is why many of the tourists would have difficulty in understanding it.
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amazing writer, almost every detail of his personal life is supposition rather than fact. Historically speaking, Shakespeare lived only yesterdey but his activities, like those of nearly every playwright of his day, are so vague that he could have been born in Roman times.

7. it was well worth the journey--it is, to a
considerable extent, worth the journey.
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On March 25th,1616,fifty-two-year-old Master William Shakespeare signed his will leaving the famous legacy of his "second best bed and furniture" to his wife and the greater part of his estate to his married daughter, Susanna Hall. It was the will of a comfortably off man, for the income from the estate probably amounted to about $200 a year . which was a lot of money over three hundred and sixty years ago. For historians, the most interesting part of the will was that signature, because it and other signatures are all we have left of the handwriting of the world's literary genius. There is no country where Shakespare's work is not read with something very like awe because ther is something fascinating about a man whose work was so much better than that of anyone else. Yet in spite of the thousands of books that have been written about this
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among his contemporaries.

4. Roman times- -Roman occupation of Britain began in the
first century after Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55 B.C.,and it continued until the early fifth century.
suppossition: a guess
playwright: dramatist, a person who writes plays vague: not clearly known legacy: money or property left to someone by a will
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2. a comfortably off man--a man who has enough money to
live in comfort. Other expressions formed with off are:well off(rich), badly off(poor).

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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

1. Master William Shakespeare--Master in Shakespeare's
time was a respectful form of address, roughly equivalent to the modern word Mister , and was generally used for professional men and substantial citizens.
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Elizabethan English. However, he was such a fine reputation that it is well worth the journey just to be able to look at the swans that swim on his river, and gaze at the cottage where Anne, his wife, lived before their marriage , and then to see his plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

5. Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire -- Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace and burialplace of
Shakespeare, is a town on the Avon River, in the country of Warwickshire, central England.
A Man from Stratford-William Shakespeare
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Life the inside have no book, seem to have no sunlight;The inside of the intelligence has no book, seem the bird have no wing. The book is the nourishment in the whole world.

Shakespeare's birthplace, the little town of Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, had made a thriving business out of its most famous citizen for a long time. It is a popular place for tourists from all over the world, even though many of them would have the greatest of difficulty in understanding Shakespeare's


Losts of people in this community are quite well off.
Owing to illness , Tom is now worse off than before.

3. a man whose work was so much better than that of anyone else --a man whose work was by far the best