English Writers. How to Speak about Books and Authors

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?

3.

4. CONNECTORS

5. William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare was born
and raised in Stratfordupon-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.

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

Shakespeare's Birthplace, John
Shakespeare's house in Stratfordupon-Avon

7.

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

8. Comedies

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

9. Tragedies

Globe Theatre
• Romeo and Juliet
• Coriolanus
• Titus Andronicus
• Timon of Athens
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• Troilus and Cressida
• King Lear
• Othello
• Antony and
• Cleopatra

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head.

13.

• Shakespeare
was a
respected poet
and playwright
in his own day

14.

• Shakespeare's funerary
monument

15. 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:

16. 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

17.

• 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

18.

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

19. Literary techniques

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

20. 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."

21. Oliver Twist

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

22. Museums and festivals

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

23. Museums and festivals

• The
Cashier's
Office,
Chatham
Dockyard.

24. Museums and festivals

• A child,
dressed in
appropriate
attire, at the
Dickensian
Festival in
Ulverston,
Cumbria.

25. 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

26. 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)

27. 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)

28. Speak about the authors

»
Walter
ScottBorn
15 August 1771
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
21 September 1832
(aged 61)
Melrose, Scotland
Occupation
Historical novelist, poet

29. Jonathan Swift

Born
30 November 1667)
Dublin, Ireland1
Died
19 October 1745 (aged 77)
Ireland
Occupa
tion
satirist, essayist, political
pamphleteer, poet, priest

30. 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

31.

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?