english writers how to speak about books and authors
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English Writers
How to Speak about Books and Authors
• To give brief information about writers you should answer the questions:
• 1.When did they work?
• 2.What books did they write?
• 3.What kind of writers are they?
• To give brief information about writers you should answer the questions:
• 1.When did they work?
• 2.What books did they write?
• 3.What kind of writers are they?
CONNECTORS
William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer.
Shakespeare's Birthplace, John Shakespeare's house in
Stratford-upon-Avon
• His early plays were mainly comedies and histories.
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
Comedies
• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It • The Comedy of
Errors
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Twelfth Night You Will
The
Winter's Tale*
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Plays of William Shakespeare.
Tragedies• Romeo and Juliet • Coriolanus • Titus Andronicus • Timon of Athens• Julius Caesar • Macbeth • Hamlet • Troilus and Cressida• King Lear • Othello • Antony and• Cleopatra
Globe Theatre
Tragedies • He then wrote mainly
tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.
Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father.
Hamlet• Sir, in my heart there was
a kind of fighting• That would not let me
sleep. Methought I lay
– Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly—
– And prais'd be rashness for it—let us know
– Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well...
– Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2, 4–8
Ophelia
Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head.
• Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day
• Shakespeare's funerary monument
Shakespeare's grave.
• Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death. The stone slab covering his grave is inscribed with a curse against moving his bones:
Charles Dickens• Born Charles John
Huffam Dickens7 February 1812)Portsmouth, England
• Died 9 June 1870 (aged 58)Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England
• Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, in Landport, Portsmouth, in Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens (1786–1851), a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife, Elizabeth
• In 1834, Dickens became a political journalist, reporting on parliamentary debate and travelling across Britain .
A young Charles Dickens
Literary techniques
• Dickens's writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch.
At his desk in 1858
Social commentary
• Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty
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"Charles Dickens as he appears when reading."
Oliver Twist
• Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime
Museums and festivals
• There are museums and festivals celebrating Dickens's life and works in many of the towns with which he was associated.
Museums and festivals
• The Cashier's Office, Chatham Dockyard.
Museums and festivals
• A child, dressed in appropriate attire, at the Dickensian Festival in Ulverston, Cumbria.
Novels
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son
Little Dorrit
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
»The Pickwick Papers
Short story collections
• Sketches by Boz (1836)
• The Mudfog Papers (1837
A Christmas Carol (1843) The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) The Battle of Life (1846)
Christmas numbers of Household Words magazine:
• What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older (1851) • A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
(1852) • Another Round of Stories by the Christmas
Fire (1853) • The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) • The Holly-Tree Inn (1855) • The Wreck of the "Golden Mary" (1856) • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
(1857) • A House to Let (1858)
Speak about the authors»
Walter ScottBorn
15 August 1771Edinburgh, Scotland
Died21 September 1832
(aged 61)Melrose, Scotland
Occupation Historical novelist, poet
Jonathan Swift
Born30 November 1667)
Dublin, Ireland1
Died19 October 1745 (aged 77)
Ireland
Occupation
satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, priest
Alexandre Dumas
Born24 July 1802)
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
Died5 December 1870
(aged 68)Puys France
Occupation playwright and novelist
Nationality French
Writing period
1829–1870
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To give brief information about writers you should answer the questions:
1.When did they work?2.What books did they write?3.What kind of writers are they?