This play is about revenge and also about how difficult it is to take action sometimes, even when it is important. Antonio loses all his business and must pay this terrible price … but is saved by love. If he doesn’t pay back this money in time, Shylock will cut off a piece of his body. Antonio, a businessman, borrows money from Shylock, a money lender. This play is about the idea that people usually get what they deserve in the end, good or bad. Here is a selection of Shakespeare’s plays. The plays are also full of parties, weddings and funerals. His characters suffer bloody battles, deaths by poison, huge family fights, problems between brothers and sisters, problems between parents and children. But why do we like these old plays? Perhaps it is because they all contain fantastic stories. Shakespeare’s work is still very popular today.

However, a modern reconstruction of the theatre was built near the original site in 1997 so even today you can go to the Globe Theatre to see one of Shakespeare's plays. In 1613 the theatre was destroyed by a fire. In 1599 the Globe Theatre was built in London and it was in this theatre, situated on the banks of the River Thames, that some of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed. Shakespeare went to London to work as an actor and a writer. When William Shakespeare was 18 years old he married Anne Hathaway, and they had three children. He is best known for his plays, which have been translated into every major language and are performed more than those of any other playwright in the world. His surviving work consists of 38 plays, 154 sonnets and some other poems. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564 and he died in 1616. William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright and is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

The plays of william shakespeare