00:00:00 - William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 poems.
00:00:06 - He is probably the most important writer and poet in English literature.
00:00:11 - He was born in Stafford, Op. 8, England in 1754.
00:00:16 - He got married to Anne Hathaway in 1582 and had three children.
00:00:23 - He wrote during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
00:00:28 - Both monarchs admire his work greatly.
00:00:32 - Lastly, he died in 1616 at the age of 52 years.
00:00:38 - Even nowadays, Shakespeare's plays are well performed over the world.
00:00:44 - Ten years before his death, at 1666, he wrote Macbeth, a story based on a real king.
00:00:53 - This one takes places in Scotland where James was a king for a lot of years.
00:01:00 - It also presents Macbeth as a victorious character.
00:01:05 - James is fascinated with witches and demons.
00:01:09 - That's the reason why in Macbeth there appear three witches.
00:01:14 - Another but not the last idea is that Shakespeare wants people to think that murder will not bring good things.
