Famous Writers

  Britain has produced more famous writers, with its rich literary heritage, than any other country.

The literary tradition dates back more than a thousand years and has played a major role in influencing the production of English literature on the international scene, as well as other literary styles.

Great Britain is home to some of the world’s most notable writers. From Shakespeare to Harry Potter, the plots and protagonists of famous books are a huge part of popular culture. The Great Britain writers wrote some of the most acknowledged lines, dreamed up characters whose fame goes beyond the novels they are the subject of, and imagined plots that have captivated readers for centuries. The literary legacy extends for over a thousand years, and shows no signs of coming to a halt. In this article are going to talk about there of the most famous, talented brightest writers of Britain literature. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and George Bernard Shaw.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English author also writer and actor. Raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564. It was collectively assumed that he passed away in 1616 on 23 Apr. He was John’s eldest son and Shakespeare’s Elizabeth. He had 2 sisters, Anne and Joan; who after infancy did not live long. Besides, William had 3 younger brothers, John, Gilbert, and Edmund. his father, John Shakespeare, was a businessman and a leatherworker who specialized in soft white leather which used for gloves and similar items. He married Mary Arden. John was an alderman but after being working at some local offices in Stratford just until William became years old, however, he stepped back from public life with no mentioned reason.

William Shakespeare almost certainly attended Stratford’s grammar school which its curriculum is revolving around the Latin classics, and also writing, memorization, and acting classic Latin plays. Shakespeare attended this school until he became 15 years old. He left the school and after a couple of years later, he married Anne Hathaway at 1582 when he was 18 years old then while Anne was 26. Anne grew up just outside Stratford at Shottery’s village and she spent the rest of her life in Stratford after her marriage. In early 1585, Shakespeare was working in London, while Anne and the children were at Stanford. He had only one son called Hamnet but he died in 1596 at the age of 11. Then he has his first grandchild in 1608 from His older daughter Susanna’s marriage from a good doctor from Stanford and in 1616, Shakespeare’s daughter Judith married Thomas Quiney, a Stratford vintner.

William Shakespeare’s works are including 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and a variety of other poems. and we have about half of his plays thanks to a group of actors from Shakespeare’s company who kept it all of these years. after Shakespeare’s death, the plays were collected, preserved for publication. These writings were brought together in a common name called folio and It contained 36 of his plays, but none of his poetry. (1)

By 1597 Shakespeare had already written and published 15 of his 37 plays, and he wanted to build his theater so that by 1599 Shakespeare and his business partners constructed their theater and named it the Globe Theatre. In 1605, Shakespeare bought 440 pounds of real estate contracts near Stratford and gained him 60 pounds a year which means the doubled interest. He was just an artist but that also made him a businessman. And that would have given him time to compose uninterruptedly his works.

Shakespeare’s first works were Richard III and Henry VI’s Three Parts. They were written during the popularity of historical drama in the early 1590s. Shakespeare’s plays are hard to date, but the study of the texts shows that Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona The early plays were inspired by the works of other Elizabethan playwrights, especially Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, the Medieval Theater traditions and Seneca plays. The comedy of errors was also based on traditional models. Shakespeare’s first classical and Italian comedies, containing comedy sequences and giving way in the mid-1590s to the romantic atmosphere of his most admired comedies. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an excellent blend of romance, magical magic, and comic lowlife scenes. Shakespeare’s early classical and Italianate comedies, containing comedy sequences and give the way in the middle of the 1590s to the romantic atmosphere of his most admired comedies. (2)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a great mixture of romance, fairy magic, and comic lowlife scenes. Then Shakespeare has mixed between romantic and comedy in the Merchant of Venice, which reflects Elizabethan views but may appear disrespectful to modern audiences. Also, the lively merrymaking of Twelfth Night completes Shakespeare’s sequence of great comedies. The lyrical Richard II was written almost entirely in verse. Shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories of the end of the 1590s, Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. His characters became more tender and complex while he switches dexterously between comedy, serious scenes, prose, and poetry, and achieves the narrative variety of his mature work. we can’t also forget Romeo and Juliet, the famous romantic tragedy about adolescence, love, and death; and Julius Caesar—based on Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives—which introduced a new kind of drama. (3)

After William died on 23 April 1616 (St. George’s Day) at his home in Stratford, he was buried two days later in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. However, the works created by Shakespeare never stopped being alive through the countless school, amateur, and professional productions performed annually across the globe.

From his famous writes (The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590-1591), Romeo and Juliet (1595), Richard III (1592), King John (1595-1596), The Merchant of Venice (1596-1597), Julius Caesar (1599), Hamlet (1600-01), King Lear (1605-06))

Despite the great and glory writes of William Shakespeare, he also had a lot of Critics like Leo Tolstoy who called Shakespeare’s plays ‘trivial and positively bad,’ labeled his enduring popularity ‘pernicious,’ He also mentioned that King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth which considered as the best of Shakespeare’s works, as ‘an irresistible repulsion and tedium.’ Also, George Bernard Shaw who criticize Shakespeare clearly when he made his opinions about the Bard clearly: ‘With the single exception of Homer,’ he once wrote, ‘there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.’

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was Irish born and grown up in Dublin in 1856 and he passed away in 1950.

He was famous as an activist of political, author, playwright, and also an activist of political. his family sent him to many schools in the city he was born. but he hated the punishment he was seen and their systems of education. After working, a clerk in Dublin for many years, in 1876, he left heading to live with his mother where she was living in London. he began reading and writing his first novels in London. He also became loyal to the ideals of socialism in 1882 and also joined the Fabian Society, a political and artistic club. after that he became one of its leading writers and activists, inspiring and helping activists like Annie Besant. (4)

He became a political activist as well as a music and art critic. He tries to get his novels published but does not succeed. He then decided to tour with the theater from 1892 and created fifty plays. after that he developed a style where his humorous spirit which was better highlighted went on to make him the undisputed master of the English theater. in his first article too committed but little to do he addresses social abuse. the hero and the soldier produced in 1894 in the united states marks the beginning of his notorious reputation internationally. According to Shaw, the 1890s London theatres showed so many revivals of old plays and not enough new work. He fought against ‘melodrama, sentimentality, stereotypes and useless conventions.’ He had frequently been able to concentrate as a music critic on analyzing new works, but in the theater he was often forced to return to discussing how different performers tackled well-known plays. (5)

In a review of Shaw’s work as critical of the theatre, E. J. West notes that Shaw ‘contradicts and contrasts artists in representation and practice without ceasing.’ As a theater critic for The Saturday Review, Shaw wrote more than 150 papers in which he analyzed more than 212 productions. He championed Ibsen’s works while other theatergoers found them outrageous, and in the twentieth century his 1891 book Quintessence of Ibsenism remained a classic. He rated Oscar Wilde above the rest of contemporary dramatists writing for the West End stage: ‘… our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theater. ‘In 1932, as Our Theaters. (6)

The musical criticism compiled by Shaw, published in three volumes, extends to more than 2,700 pages. In his columns he was fiercely partisan, promoting Wagner’s music and decrying that of Brahms and composers like Stanford and Parry whom he saw as Brahmsian. He protested against the prevalent style for Handel oratorios performances with enormous amateur choirs and inflated orchestration, calling for ‘a chorus of twenty talented artists. He railed against unrealistically staged or sung opera productions in languages which the audience had not spoken

He was suffering from illness and fatigue he also reduced his political activity from 1898. his bohemian life ended after his multiple successes and his marriage from Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a young woman he met at the Fabian Society where he was a member. without ceasing interest in politics and issues of social he devoted himself entirely to his works and theses as he ridiculed social harmony. he was rewarded with the Nobel prize for literature in 1925 for his talent and fame he remained very active throughout his whole life and died from a fall at the age of 94. (7)

Shaw, was been defined as the most important English-language playwright after Shakespeare, created an enormous artwork of which at least half a dozen pieces remain part of the repertoire of the world. Academically unfashionable, with minimal presence even in areas such as Irish drama and political theatre, where success might be expected, Shaw’s special and unmistakable plays continue to escape from the deeply dated category of period pieces to which they were previously consigned.

The sense of humor appears in his play hand in hand with the logical accuracy of the ideas he develops. some of his huge introductions are real articles in which he develops his favorite subject’s art pacifism political ideas philosophical and religious concepts and provides solutions to address the evils he condemns in his plays. his work is a revolutionary and reformative work aimed at destroying capitalism to replace it with enlightened and higher socialism. Inspired by history and mythology, he published in turn ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ in 1898, ‘Androcles and the lion’ in 1912, and ‘Pygmalion’ in 1914. Adapted many times to the cinema, this play also inspired the musical ‘My Fair Lady’. Pygmalion 1912 and Saint Joan 1923 his maturity works are often considered masterpieces.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is a great novelist who was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport in Hampshire, England then he died in 1870 at Gad’s Hill Place in Higham, Kent. When his first books came out the novelist was popular. Among those early works, his best-known work remains Oliver Twist, first published as a serial in the English magazine Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1839. Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest novelists.

Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens with his full name, was born by John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow on February 7, 1812. He’s the second of a family of eight children. Her father, who was originally in charge of pay at the Royal Navy, was transferred to London. The family left Hampshire in 1815 and settled near Oxford Street then in 1817 in Chatham, Kent. Young Charles attended William Giles, Pastor of the Baptist institution. He starts reading Daniel Defoe’s, Henry Fielding’s, and Oliver Goldsmith’s novels which will become his literary model.

But Charles’ carelessness came to an abrupt end when he was 10. After a pay and debt reduction the family returned to London in search of better days. Elizabeth Dickens began opening a school in 1822, but the project failed, and the financial condition of the family further deteriorated. After leaving school, Charles supported his family by cleaning boots and was employed for ten hours a day at the Warren’s Blacking Factory in Strand in 1824 where he stowed labels on polish and dye bottles. That makes accommodation for the Dickens family. His father and family were imprisoned for three months in Marshalsea prison in Southwark on 20 February 1824. (8)

After his debt He started working in a law firm as a clerk at the age of 15 and later became a freelance writer. He notably records the chronicles of the debates in the House of Commons with success.

Charles Dickens attends every day, accompanied by his sister Frances, London’s actors and musicians, and goes to the theatre very regularly. He wrote several pages in the Monthly Magazine, under the pseudonym Boz, in December 1833. He was spotted by the Morning Chronicle, of which he had known George Hogarth, the daughter of music and art critic. His first series was a great success and he’d been allowed He was spotted by the Morning Chronicle, of which he knew the daughter of music and art critic George Hogarth. His first series was a great success, and allowed him to join the London Bell’s Life where he made a better living.

The success of Boz’s Sketches, published in 1835, was such that the Chapman and Hall publishing house gave him a collection of twenty episodes entitled The Pickwick Club’s Posthumous Articles. He multiplies publications in various London periodicals. Mr. Pickwick’s adventures are widely received by the public, and mark the beginning of the writer’s recognition. In 1836 Charles Dickens became the first editor-in-chief of Bentley’s Miscellany, a monthly literary review created by publisher Richard Bentley. (9)

Charles Dickens, overwhelmed by work and unable to fulfill all of his orders, resigned from the Morning Chronicles and embarked on his career as a novelist, fortified by his meeting with his friend, the writer John Forster. He married Catherine Hogarth who had 10 children with him.

He wrote his first book, Inspired by his marital and family happiness, Nicholas Nickleby (1838). But the joy is disrupted in May 1837 by the death of his wife’s niece, Mary Scott Hogarth, in the novelist’s arms. Dickens is deeply affected by this death and must delay the publication of his 1839 novel Oliver Twist and that of the Pickwick episodes of the Pickwick Papers soap opera (1836-1837).

Between novels, short stories, and soap operas, the novelist multiplies publications and works intensively. In 1840 the Antiquities Store was released and in 1841 Barnaby Rudge. These writings are very popular with the public.

In a travelogue, American Notes to General Circulation, he described his impressions. In Notes, Dickens includes a powerful condemnation of slavery that he had attacked as early as The Pickwick Papers, which correlates the emancipation of the poor in England with the abolition of slavery abroad citing newspaper accounts of runaway slaves disfigured by their masters. Some contemporary critics have pointed out contradictions in Dickens’ views on racial inequality given the abolitionist ideas gleaned from his trip to America. He has been blamed, for example, for his subsequent acquiescence in the brutal intervention of Governor Eyre during the Jamaica Morant Bay rebellion of the 1860s and his inability to support other progressives in criticizing it. (10)

From Richmond, Virginia, Dickens went back to Washington, D.C., and set off on a westward trek to St. Louis, Missouri. While there, before returning to the East, he expressed a desire to see an American prairie. A party of 13 men then set out to visit Looking Glass Prairie, a 30-mile journey into Illinois with Dickens.

Charles Dickens is also celebrated by the critics he meets and praised by his contemporary counterparts. The Dickens family is solicited from all sides, and the heroes of Dickens, Pickwick, and Nickleby are celebrated. Charles Dickens continues his writing work. He published several books on Christmas between 1843 and 1848, including A Christmas Carol (1843), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), and The Battle of Life (1846). Between 1849 and 1850 are published monthly Dombey and Son and the adventures of David Copperfield, one of the best-known works of the writer. At the same time, relations between the spouses deteriorated, and they separated in 1858.

Charles Dickens never stops pursuing his writing work. He published Bleak House from 1852 to 1853 Hard Times in 1854 and Little Dorrit from 1855 to 1857, the most political of Charles Dickens’ novels. He denounces the working conditions of workers there, drawing inspiration from his youthful experience. The audience is there, it’s one of the author’s big successes. (11)

In The Common Friend, published in 1864 and 1865, he continued his critique of the unequal society of Victorian England. In 1870 he wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which remains unfinished following his death on June 9, 1870.

These writers are still shining bright at the sky of literature. Their books still being published in various languages all over the world. Their stories are being told so far for kids and grownups. Their writings are still shaped in so many plays all over the world theaters. They have written stories, tales, poems, books and plays the have a remarkable effect on the history of the literature. And their books are founded in all the libraries around the world.

No matter how long we lived … those names will never fade and their books will never vanish, and their tellings will remain forever.