This year we commemorate the 400th anniversary of Cervantes and William Shakespeare's deaths.
First, we are focusing on Shakespeare as he is considered the greatest writer in the English language and he is part of the English culture. Everybody knows that he was a very important poet, playwright and actor and some of his plays are very popular around the world as Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet.
At school, we are celebrating Book's Day and it was compulsary including activities to know Shakespeare a bit more, working on his biography, discovering how he looks like, his work....
Moreover, we are from La Mancha, and Cervantes' main novel is Don Quijote de la Mancha. This novel has been translated to many many languages, and to English too, of course.
We couldn't forget this fact at school and everybody can read the popular beggining of Don Quijote in our stairs, can you say it??