1.	Anglická literatura

1.1.	Geoffrey Chaucer

1.2.	William Shakespeare

1.3.	John Milton

1.4.	Daniel Defoe

1.5.	Henry Fielding's

1.6.	Sir Walter Scott

1.7.	Mary Shelley

1.8.	The Brontë sisters

1.9.	Charles Dickens

1.10.

Jan Austen

1.11.

J.R.R. Tolkien

1.12.

Agatha Christie

2.	American’s literature

2.1.	Herman Melville

2.2.	Edgar Alan Poe

2.3.	Emily Dickinson

2.4.	Mark Twain

2.5.	Jack London

2.6.	Ernest Hemingway's

2.7.	Francis Scott Fitzgerald

2.8.	William Faulkner

2.9.	John Steinbeck

2.10.

Jack Kerouac

2.11.

William Styron

“William Shakespeare

­ he was one of the gratest dramatists the world has ever seen
­ he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564 as the third child of Mary and John Shakespeare
­ his mother was called Mary Arden, she came from a rich family
­ his father, John, was a businessman who sold gloves, wool and meat
­ William went to Stratford Grammar School where he learnt Latin and Greek
­ during his youth he enjoyed wandering through forests and fields; this was the origin of his great love of nature, which was reflected in his works
­ in 1582, when he was 18 years old, he married Ann Hathaway; she was eight years old than him
­ they had three children
­ there are no descendants of the Shakespeare family alive today
­ it is possible that in 1587 William Shakespeare joined a group of travelling actors and left Stratford
­ by 1592 he was definitely an actor and playwright in London
­ at first he rewrote and edited older plays, later he started to write his own plays
­ in 1599 the Globe Theatre opened in London and most of his 37 plays were performed there
­ during the twenty years that he lived in London, he wrote many tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies and historical plays; somewhat less well known are his sonnets
­ the Globe was made of wood; it was round; there was no roof, so if it rained the audience and the actors got wet
­ Shakespeare wrote three kinds of play:
a) comedies - the comedies had happy ending
• The Taming of the Shrew
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• As You Like It
b) tragedies - the tragedies had sad endings
• Hamlet
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Macbeth
c) histories - the histories told the story of the past
• Julius Caesar
• Henry V
• Henry IV
• Julius Caesar
• Anthony and Cleopatra
d) romances
• The Winter’s Tale
• The Tempest
­ although there were other successful playwrights at the time - especially Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare was recognized in his own lifetime as one of the finest playwrights of the time
­ by 1597 he was rich enough to buy New Place the finest house in Stratford
­ in 1613 the Globe burned down during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
­ in 1616 he died of a fever and he is buried in the church at Stratford upon Avon
­ altogether William wrote thirty-seven theatre plays and one 154 sonnets - he was also a poet"