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ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare's full name was William Shakespeare. He did not always spell
it the same way. He lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and wrote a
great many plays. His plays are written in dialogue form. Some people
think they were not written by Shakespeare but by another man of the
same name. I have read some of them because our school teacher says
everybody ought to read them, but I did not care much for them. There
are some things in them I cannot understand. I like the stories of
Valeria H. Montague in the Family Guide ever so much better. They are
more exciting and truer to life. Romeo and Juliet was one of the plays I
read. It was very sad. Juliet dies and I don't like stories where people
die. I like it better when they all get married especially to dukes and
earls. Shakespeare himself was