William Shakespeare, the great English poet and dramatist, was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-on-Avon.
There were no theatres in England then. Groups of actors travelled from town to town showing performances in the street. The boy went to see all their shows and liked them very much. Не wanted to become an actor.
When Shakespeare was twenty-one, he went to London. There he joined a group of actors. At first he only helped actors and then began writing plays for them. Soon Shakespeare’s plays were staged more and more and became famous. The theatre where he worked was called “The Globe”. It became the first professional theatre.
Everyone knows Shakespeare’s plays. The most famous of them are “Othello”, ”Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “King Lear”.
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest novelists in the English language. Dicken`s family lived in London. There were eight children in the family, so life was hard.
When he was sixteen, he started work for a newspaper. Soon he was one of the Morning Chronicle's best journalists. He also wrote short stories for magazines.
He wrote about the real world of Victorian England and many of his characters were not rich, middleclass ladies and gentlemen, but poor and hungry people- Oliver Twist.
His books became popular in many countries and he spent a lot of time abroad, in America, Italy and Switzerland.
Oscar Wilde is one of the most interesting representatives of British literature. He was born in 1856 in the Irish family.
After graduating from Oxford University Wilde delivered lectures on ethics and aesthetics in Europe and America. He was accused of immoral behaviour and got into prison. After it he left for Paris where he died in1900.
He is well-known for his extraordinary talent and humour. He always considered the aesthetic feeling of a person to be the moving force of human development.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” is one of his most famous novels.
Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie became, and remains, the best-selling novelist of all time.
As a child, Christie enjoyed fantasy play and creating characters, and, when she was 16, she moved to Paris for a time to study vocals and piano.
Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective; Poirot reappeared in about 25 novels and many short stories before returning to Styles, where, in Curtain (1975), he died. The elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, her other principal detective figure, first appeared in Murder at the Vicarage (1930).
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