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Famous Writers and Their Works

Get brief information about renowned writers, including Shakespeare and Dickens. Discover when they worked, the books they wrote, and the type of writers they were.

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Famous Writers and Their Works

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  1. English Writers How to Speak about Books and Authors

  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? • 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. CONNECTORS

  4. 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.

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

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

  7. Comedies • All's Well That Ends Well • As You Like It • The Comedy of Errors ‡ The Winter's Tale* A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth NightYou Will The Plays of William Shakespeare. • Measure for Measure

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head.

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

  13. Shakespeare's funerary monument

  14. 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:

  15. Charles Dickens • BornCharles John Huffam Dickens7 February 1812)Portsmouth, England • Died9 June 1870 (aged 58)Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England

  16. 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

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

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

  19. Social commentary • Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty " " "Charles Dickens as he appears when reading." when reading." appears

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

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

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

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

  24. 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

  25. 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)

  26. 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)

  27. Speak about the authors • Walter Scott

  28. Jonathan Swift

  29. Alexandre Dumas

  30. 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?

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