1. Let’s speak about Books and Authors!
English Writers
Let’s speak about Books and Authors!
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2. 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?

3. 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.

4. Shakespeare's Birthplace, John Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon

5. His early plays were mainly
comedies and histories.
Oberon, Titania and
Puck with Fairies Dancing

6. Comedies All's Well That Ends Well** As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure**
The Merchant of Venice**
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre*
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest*
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen*
The Winter's Tale*
Cymbeline ‡
The
Measure for Measure

7. 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

8. Hamlet
Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fightingThat would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
Ophelia

9. Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head.

10. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day

11. Shakespeare's funerary monument

12. 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:

13. Charles Dickens
Born Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812) Portsmouth, England
Died 9 June 1870 (aged 58) Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England

14. 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

15. In 1834, Dickens became a political journalist, reporting on parliamentary debate and travelling across Britain .
A young Charles Dickens

16. Literary techniques
Dickens's writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch.
At his desk in 1858

17. 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."
when reading."
appears

18. Oliver Twist
Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime

19. Museums and festivals
There are museums and festivals celebrating Dickens's life and works in many of the towns with which he was associated.

20. Museums and festivals
The Cashier's Office, Chatham Dockyard.

21. Museums and festivals
A child, dressed in appropriate attire, at the Dickensian Festival in Ulverston, Cumbria.

22. Novels The Pickwick Papers The Adventures of Oliver Twist
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Little Dorrit

23. 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)

24. 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)

25. Speak about the authors
Walter Scott
Born
15 August 1771 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
21 September 1832 (aged 61) Melrose, Scotland
Occupation
Historical novelist, poet

26. Jonathan Swift Born 30 November 1667) Dublin, Ireland1 Died
19 October 1745 (aged 77) Ireland
Occupation
satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, priest

27. Alexandre Dumas Born 24 July 1802) Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
Died
5 December 1870 (aged 68) Puys France
Occupation
playwright and novelist
Nationality
French
Writing period
1829–1870

28. 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?