The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet
Hamlet
King Lear
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare is called "the soul of the times" in Britain. He left the world with 37 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 narrative poems and several miscellaneous poems. In western countries, the average family should have two books, one is the Bible and the other is The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
Since 1930s 19, critical realism literature has become the mainstream of European and American literature. The French writer Stendhal's novel Red and Black is his foundation work. French realistic writer Balzac's masterpiece "Human Comedy" (Lao Gao Man, Eugè ne Grandet, etc. ) is a chronicle of the upper class in Paris. Other outstanding French writers include Flaubert (Madame Bovary), Zola (The Lugon Macard Family) and Mo Bosang (The Road to Suicide). Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities embodies his humanitarianism, and Hardy's novel Tess of the D 'Urbervilles reflects his outlook on fate. Thackeray (Vanity Fair), Lady Gaskell (mary barton), Charlotte Brontexq (Jane Eyre), emily bronte (Wuthering Heights) and Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara) are all famous English realistic writers. Russian writer Nikolai Nikolai Gogol (dead soul) attacked the autocratic serfdom with bitter satire. Turgenev (father and son) described nature and life with lyrical brushwork. Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment) explored the mystery of the soul with profound eyes. Lev tolstoy (War and Peace) explored the way out of Russian society with great momentum. Chekhov (the man in the trap) expressed his dislike of the old life and his yearning for the new life in an implicit style. Herzen (Whose Crime), Chernyshevski (What to Do), Goncharov (Aubrey Lomov), ostrovsky (Thunderstorm) and Necrasov (Who Can Have a Good Life in Russia) are all influential writers. Other important realistic writers in this period include: American novelist Mark Twain (Adventures of Hakberg Finn), German poet Heine (Germany-A Winter Fairy Tale), Norwegian playwright Ibsen (A Doll's House) and Danish fairy tale writer Andersen.