Task 1. What inspired Shakespeare to write ? Ben Crystal continues his visit to Stratford upon - Avon , learning about Shakespeare's education , marriage and the lost years ' before he moved to London . Answer the questions . 1. Why was Stratford busy at Shakespeare's time ? 2.How old was Anne Hathaway when William Shakespeare married her ? 3.According to Dr. Anjna Chouhan , what was Shakespeare inspired by ? 4. How did Stratford affect Shakespeare's writing ? 5. What did Shakespeare write mainly about ? Transcript Stratford in Shakespeare's time was a busy place . It was a market town ; people would have travelled far and wide to be here , bringing their life stories with them . If Shakespeare heard them they would have fired his imagination and been great ground for play writing . At 18 William married a local woman , Anne Hathaway , who was eight years older than him . Dr Anjna Chouhan : Anne was three months pregnant on their wedding day , so six months later she gave birth to their first child , a daughter , Susanna . And two years after Susanna , twins were born , Hamnet and Judith , a boy and a girl . S he's twenty - two , and he's got three children and a wife . It's a lot of pressure him . And between having his three children and turning up in London a few years later in the 1590s, Shakespeare goes missing. Thereis no record of him. So those years in between are called the lost years and there are lots of strange ideas about what Shakespeare did during those lost years. Ben: What are some of your favorite ideas about where he went, what happened to him over these years? AC:I think that William was inspired by travelling groups of actors who came to visit Stratford- upon-Avon when he was living here, and I think that he saw some of their plays when they set up in the streets and in the taverns, and he thought that's for me and travelled to London with them. Ben: Did Stratford have a great influence on his writing? AC: Stratford had a really important influence on Shakespeare's writing. He was inspired by the tradespeople he saw here, the schoolmasters, and especially the country side. He writes a lot about trees and forests and flowers and herbs in all of his plays, so he is inspired by all of the things that are happening around him. There are so many questions we have about Shakespeare that we'll never get answers to, but coming here to Stratford, seeing where he grew up, where he went to school, where he was buried, it brings the man that most of us were introduced to in a book on a page back to life.көмектесіндеріш керек болып тұр жазып жеберіндерш
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Топик Родина Шекспира - Стратфорд-на-Эйвоне рассказывает о городе, ставшем известным всему миру благодаря великому писателю и драматургу Уильяму Шекспиру. В 1597 году, в городе писателю принадлежал кирпичный особняк «Нью Плейс». К сожалению, в середине 18-го века новый владелец особняка избавился от всего, что напоминало о Шекспире - тем самым он хотел отвадить туристов, которые все время топтались на пороге. Последние годы жизни Шекспир провел в Стратфорде. После его кончины 23 апреля 1616 года, он был погребен в церкви Святой Троицы. Город Стратфорд не забывает про наследие своего сына. В 1932 году на берегу Эйвона был выстроен Королевский Шекспировский театр, а Королевская Шекспировская труппа регулярно проводит фестивали в честь великого драматурга.
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Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, is now one of the most popular tourist centres. But it was not so many years ago. In the 18th century only a few relics of Shakespeare were left — his tomb, New Place (a large house which was built in place of Shakespeare's own house), the mulberry tree that he had planted and his birthplace.
People from London and other places came to see these relics. Most of them came to New Place where they wanted to see the famous mulberry tree in the garden. The owner of New Place wasn't much interested in Shakespeare. He didn't like the fact that so many visitors came to his house asking to see the mulberry tree. So in 1756 he cut down the tree and his life became quiet. But it didn't last long. The people who came to Stratford-on-Avon to see Shakespeare's tree at first were surprised, then they got so angry that the owner of New Place had to leave Stratford.
After Stratford lost one of the most famous relics of Shakespeare, the city fathers decided to do something to attract people there. They asked the greatest actor of the time David Garrick to organize a festival in Stratford.
Garrick planned to do it in the first week of September, 1769. He wanted the festival to be the greatest outdoor festival staged in England.
At six o'clock in the morning of Wednesday September 6 the festival was opened. Many people came to Stratford. The first day was successful, and Garrick was happy. On the second day it rained hard. The second-day evening ended as it began — in the rain.
On the third day all the people left Stratford, Garrick returned to London very sad. But his festival was the beginning of a tradition. Stratford is now famous for its Shakespeare festivals. Every year a lot of people come to Stratford for the Festival season which lasts from April to September.