Pre-intermediate Listening / William Shakespeare

When and where was William Shakespeare born?

No other writer in the English language has ___ so popular for such a long time.

___ years after they were written the poems and plays were ___ ___ by experts in literature.

Did Shakespeare invent the stories of his plays?

The many characters in his plays seem very different from each other but they seem very ___ .

How were his stories described? (What genres?)

Who enjoyed his plays?

But perhaps even the most impressive ___ of Shakespeare's plays are the characters within them.

Today writers often use ___ from Shakespeare's plays.

What is more impressive in Shakespeare's plays than the wide range of topics?