Literature
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Literature
Literature represents the culture and tradition of a language or a people.
Reading is a good way how to enlarge your vocabulary. You can use your imagination while reading. A lot of people read for pleasure have a higher vocabulary, better reading comprehension, and better communication skills, such as writing ability.
I like reading. I thing it is an activity, where you can relax and use your fantasy to imagine the story by yourself. It teaches you what life is all about and how it had been in earlier times. I prefer books based on the real stories. I have red a book by an american psychologist who worked with problem kids. The book named Beautiful child was written by her experience. It is a true story about a litlle girl who doesn´t want to speak with anyone because she is abused by hr father. It was really sad story but it has a happy ending.
British literature
Can be devided into 3 periods:
Old english literature
Middle-english literature
Modern english literature
I would like to say something about the most known writer of drama.
William Shakespeare
Is probably the greatest dramatist of England. He lived and worked in the 16th century in the period of the Renaissance.
Was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and he was one of eight children. His father was a successful tradesmen working with leather.
In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway from Shottery. He was only eighteen, Ann was eight years older. They had three children together – Susanna and the twins – Hamnet and Judith.
Shakespeare was working in London as an actor, then as a reviser and writer of plays. The theatres were very popular being the only places where people could hear honest comments about life. James I recognized Shakespeare’s company as the leading group of actors and from then on they were known as the King’s Men.
He died on the same day as he was born. He was exactly 52 years old.
Shakespeare wrote: 37 plays and beautiful sonnets, comedies, history plays and tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello.
American literature
Ernest Hemingway – he was fascinated by war; he became a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His most successful book is „For Whom the Bell Tolls“ – is about the Spanish Civil War; another work is „A Farewell to Arms“