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Slide 4: Who Was William Shakespeare? Speaker 2: William Shakespeare was a playwright and actor who lived from 1564 to 1616. He wrote around 39 plays and many poems. His plays were really popular in the Elizabethan time and are still famous now. Slide 5: Themes in Shakespeare’s Plays Speaker 2: Shakespeare wrote about big ideas like love, death, jealousy, betrayal, and power. In Romeo and Juliet, he showed the sadness of love and family fights. In Macbeth, he showed how wanting too much power can ruin everything. Slide 6: Characters and Emotions Speaker 2: Shakespeare’s characters felt real—they were funny, sad, brave, scared, all kinds of things. They weren’t perfect. That made people understand them better. He also used cool things like soliloquies, where a character talks to themselves to show their thoughts.