Myths and facts about Shakespeare

If you say “Macbeth” out loud in a theater, something bad might happen.

Shakespeare got married when he was a teenager.

All of Shakespeare’s plays were serious tragedies.

We still use some of Shakespeare’s phrases today.

Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to entertain, but also to impress the king.

Shakespeare wrote all of his plays by himself.

Scholars cannot agree on whether Shakespeare was queer.

Shakespeare invented the English language.

Only rich, fancy people went to Shakespeare’s plays.

We know exactly what Shakespeare looked like.