1.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564 - 1616).


The greatest English playwright and poet. He was born in Stradford-upon-Avon. He attended the local grammar school. At the age of 18 he married Ann Hathaway from nearly village Shottery, who was seven years older than William. They had three children - daughters Susan and Juliet and a son Hamnet.
Some years after he left Stradford and went to London. There he joined a group of actors. First he helped to adapt or re-write earlier plays but later he started to write his own plays and he was successful.
As he had made a name and a fortune, he could buy a new house in Stradford-upon-Avon. He died on the same day as he was born (23rd April). The legend says that he died after noisy celebration with his friends. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and beautiful sonnet's. His literature work is loved and appreciated because of Shakespeare's love of men, his understanding human weakness and richness of his language.
He wrote comedies, historical plays and tragedies. Comedies : Marry Wives of Windsor,The Comedy of Eros, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
Tragedies : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Historical plays : Richard II., III., Henry IV., V., VI., Anthony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar His first masterpiece Romeo and Juliet. The story is well-known of the rivaly between Monteque and Capulet families and Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lover the daughter from one family and the son from the other. It's a sad moving story told in beautiful poetry. He wrote great tragedies such as Hamlet (question from this play are well-known such as "TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT'S THE QUESTION")


CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1970)


He was famous English novelist of the Victorian period. Dickens
began his career as a journalist and reporter from the debates in
Parliament. He is author of The Posthumous Papers of the Picwick
Club, a collection of humorous sketches, which made him famous. Dickens's ability to draw characters and to decribe human
weaknesses with humour and understanding became evident here. He
wrote a number of novels including Oliver Twist, David
Copperfield, Little Dorrit and others. Many of them reflect
Dickens's unhappy childhood experience. 3.ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)


Lost Generation - This term was in regular use after War World
I.