ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ К УРОКУ "ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WRITERS"

MARK TWAIN

BIOGRAPHY Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)was born in Mark Twain- it is his pen name. He was the sixth of seven children. At the age of 4‚ Sam and his family moved to the small town of Hannibal and lived in the state of the Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi.

In 1847‚ when Sam was 11‚ his father died. He left school and began to work as a printer’s apprentice for a newspaper. His job allowed Sam to read the news of the world.

At 18‚ Sam headed east to New York City and Philadelphia‚ where he worked on several different newspapers and found some success at writing articles.

For the next17 years‚ Sam‚ Livy, his wife, and their three daughters lived in the Hartford home. During those years Mark Twain wrote « Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

with whom he met Mark Twain in childhood. He combined in a unique image examples boys — Tom Sawyer. He embodies everything good that happens-Lo with a writer in his childhood

Tom Sawyer

Марк Твен Дом - музей Марка Твена в г. Ганнибал

Памятник Тому Сойеру и Геку Финну в американском городке Ганнибал ( штат Миссури ). Скульптор Ф. Хаббард год.

АФОРИЗМЫ М. ТВЕНА Англичанин – человек, который делает что - либо, потому что так делали раньше. Американец – человек, который делает что - либо, потому что так раньше не делали. Марк Твен.

Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу, кто ты. A man is known by the company he keeps

JAMES HADLY CHASE to be born in London to be the son of Colonel Francis Reymond to leave home at the age of 18 to begin to write in 1939 to become famous in 1939 to serve in the Royal Air Force during World War II to be one of the best known thriller writers of all times to work as a bookseller to write 78 books the dates of the life:

James Hadly Chase

Agatha Christie the dates of the life: a well-known English writer to be a popular with a lot of people (her books and plays) to be made into films (many of her books) to be the most famous characters of her books (detectives) to be the best-known novels by the author “ Murder on the Orient Express ” ( « Убийство в Восточном экспрессе »,1934) “Death on the Nile” (Смерть на Ниле», 1937 )

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S EXPRESSIONS  One should make his own mistakes in life.  It’s so tiring when one is always right.  Men are in danger everywhere but women are mainly in love.

Agatha Christie

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

W. SHAKESPEARE («AS YOU LIKE IT»)

BIOGRAPHY He was born on April 23, 1564 In Stratford–upon–Avon. His mother was the daughter of a farmer. His father was a glove-maker.

ENGLAND MIDLANDS STRATFORD HAS ANGLO-SAXON ORIGINS STANDS ON THE RIVER AVON OVER 800 YEARS OLD

STRATFORD- UPON-AVON NOWADAYS

W.SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE : HENLY STREET

THE BACKYARD OF THE HOUSE

AT THE AGE OF 7 WILLIAM WAS SENT TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WHERE HE STUDIED FOR 6 YEARS. AT THE AGE OF 14 HIS FATHER TOOK HIM FROM SCHOOL. WHAT HE DID BETWEEN IS NOT KNOWN.

W. SHAKESPEARE’S SCHOOL IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

THE CLASSROOM

FAMILY LIFE  Marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582  Anne was 26, he was 18  3 children  The youngest, Hamnet died at the age of 11

LONDON MOVED TO WORK IN LONDON AT THE AGE OF 23 JOINED A TRAVELLING COMPANY OF ACTORS WORKED BOTH AS AN ACTOR AND A WRITER MOST OF HIS PLAYS WERE PERFORMED IN THE NEW GLOBE THEATRE

GLOBE THEATRE NOWADAYS

STRATFORD ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE (1932)

WHAT MONARCH REIGNED IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIMES?

QUEEN ELIZABETH I ( ) ARTS AND ESPECIALLY THEATRE WAS DEVELOPED

GREAT SHAKESPEARE’ S PLAYS 1593 «THE COMEDY OF ERRORS» 1595 «ROMEO AND JULIET» 1599 «JULIUS CAESAR» 1600 «AS YOU LIKE IT» 1600 «TWELFTH NIGHT» 1601 « HAMLET» 1604 «OTHELLO» 1606 «KING LEAR» and others

SHAKESPEARE’S SIGNATURE

POTRAITS Which is real? Nobody knows…

A NEW POTRAIT WAS FOUND YEARS OLD

GARDENS OF NEW PLACE HERE W. SHAKESPEARE SPENT HIS LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE. THE HOUSE WAS DESTROYED. THERE IS A GARDEN ON ITS PLACE.

THE END OF HIS LIFE  Returned to Stratford in 1610  In 1616 Shakespeare died on April, 23 (his birthday)  Was buried in Holy Trinity Church, where he was christened

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH STRATFORD

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH THE FIRST MONUMENT

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH W. SHAKESPEARE’S GRAVE STONE AFTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S DEATH THERE WAS MUCH TALK ABOUT REMOVING HIS REMAINS FROM STRATFORD TO THE WESMINSTER ABBEY BUT THE IDEA WAS SOON ABANDONED.

ONLY IN 1740, 124 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, MEMORIAL STATUE TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WAS ERECTED IN POET’S CORNER IN WESMINSTER ABBY.

POET’S CONER WESTMINSTER ABBY

NEW YORK STRATFORD ON AVON MONUMEN TS

LOOKING BACK  Shakespeare wrote:  37 plays  154 sonnets  2 poems

THOUGH WRITTEN MORE THAN 400 YEARS AGO, HIS PLAYS CONTINUE TO BE READ AND PERFORMED.

ROMEO AND JULIET

HAMLET

KING LEAR

OTHELLO

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS When and where did W. Shakespeare live? What did he do to earn his living? Did he have a family? Why did he become famous? What monarch reigned in the country in those times? How many plays, poems and sonnets did he write? When and where did W. Shakespeare die? Where was he buried?

Jack London the dates of the life: to be a son of a farmer to live in a poverty to begin to work at the age of 10 to have a lot of jobs to be a man of adventure to work as a newspaper seller, a sailor, a factory worker to dream of becoming a pirate to write his first book in 1898 to live in Alaska for some years to write 152stories about the North

Jack London