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It took many years to get the money, get permission and find out exactly what the

place looked like in the old days. On June 12, 1997 Her Majesty the Queen opened

the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, the re-creation of Shakespeare’s theatre.

Unfortunately, Sam Wanamaker died in 1993 and wasn’t in the audience to see his

dream finally come true.

Today, you can visit the beautiful new Globe, and in summer you can even see a

play performed, as it would have been in Shakespeare’s day.

Did you know that?

William Shakespeare left the Grammar school where he had studied when he was

13 and never went to school again.

John Shakespeare, the great playwright’s father, couldn’t write.

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays, but only 18 of them were published in his

lifetime and the first 8 didn’t even carry his name.

Many people have denied that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Candidates for the

‘real’ author have ranged from Francis Bacon to Queen Elizabeth I.

Shakespeare usually wrote for a specific group of actors, and as they grew older

he wrote plays with older characters to suit them.

Some actors are still superstitious about Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They believe that

harm can come to the actors if they mention its name. So it’s usually called ‘The

Scottish Play’ or ‘That play’ or ‘Mac - oh, I mustn’t say it’.

From Speak out, 2/ 2000

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Виды Лондона

При посадке в аэропорту Хитроу взор пассажиров падает вначале на не

слишком-то вдохновляющий вид резервуара. При обычных полетах происходит

это лишь

за несколько минут до посадки, но при большой плотности движения