A playwright is ​a person who writes plays for the theatre.
Synonym: dramatist
A person who writes film/movie scripts or screenplays is called a screenwriter.

Which famous writers do you know?
Write and tell us about a famous writer from your country.
 

I know some writers. I know Evgenios Trivizas and Alexandros Papadiamantis. They are very good writers. My favourite one is Trivizas because he is very imaginative.
Updated: I know Carmen Ruggheri, Evgenios Trivizas and Georges Sarri. I prefer Evgenios Trivizas because he writes very good books. Eve Apostolidi

I know some writers: Zaharias Papantoniou, Nikos Kazantzakis, Dionysios Solomos and many others. My favourite author is Eugenios Trivizas. I love the way he writes books for children. I like his stories and I have some of his books. I like all of them. Katerina Liakopoulou

I know Eugenios Trivizas. I do not have a favourite author because I do not know many. Angelika Kanani

I know J.K. Rowling. She is 56 years old. She was born in 1965. She has written all 7 Harry Potter books, and very soon a new book is about to come out. [no name]



William Shakespeare was born in 1564
in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England.

His father, John, was a glove-maker.
His mother, Mary, was a farmer’s daughter.
He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers.

William probably studied Latin, Greek and history, and left
school when he was 14 or 15.

Three years later he married Anne Hathaway.
They had a daughter called Susanna
and twins named Judith and Hamnet.

Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford
and went to London, the capital city of England.

London’s first theatre opened in 1576.
Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and
then started writing plays too.

In 1593 the plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands
of people and theatres were closed. During this time William started to write poems
instead of plays. His short poems are called sonnets.

Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe.
It opened in 1599. It was round and had space for 3,000 people.
At The Globe some people stood in front of the
stage and others had seats.
The audience shouted, clapped, booed and laughed while
they watched plays.
Musicians created special noises to make the plays more exciting
and they had a cannon to make big bangs!
No women acted in Shakespeare’s time:
men and boys played all the parts.

Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings,
like A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
He wrote tragedies which had sad endings, like Romeo and Juliet.
His history plays are about kings and queens, like Henry V.

Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, maybe more. He
loved language and invented new words and expressions that we still use today.
William became rich and famous. He had houses in London and in Stratford. He died
when he was 52 on 23 April 1616.

His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years
ago and they are still popular today. People all over the world love his work because
he wrote wonderful stories about very interesting people.

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