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- 'Antony and Cleopatra' is a tragedy which is written by William Shakespeare.
- 'Caesar and Cleopatra' is a drama which is written by G. B. Shaw.
- 'The Winter's Tale' is a comedy which is written by William Shakespeare.
- 'Waiting for Godot' is a play which is written by Samuel Beckett.

Source: Britannica.com

• John Milton is a writer of Caroline Age.
• He is called Epic Poet and also called 'A great master of verse in Puritan Period'.
• His famous Epics:
- Paradise Lost and
- Paradise Regained.
• His famous books:
- Areopagitica (a right to freedom of speech and expression).
- Comus,
- Lycidas,
- Of Education,

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopaedia of Britannica.

• Rudyard Kipling was born in India.
• He is the first British to win the Nobel prize in 1907.
• He is mainly a Short Story writer.

• His famous works:
- The Jungle Book Collection of Stories),
- Kim,
- Just So Stories,
- Puck of Pook's Hill,
- Rewards and Fairies,
- Plain Tales from The Hills,
- Departmental Ditties,
- The Tomb of His Ancestors,
- The Man who was,
- The Mark of the Beast,
- Soldiers Three etc.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture and An ABC of English Literature.

• 'Waiting for Godot' is a famous play by Samuel Backett.
• The important character of this play:
- Vladimir,
- Estragon,
- Pozzo,
- Lucky etc.

Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica and Waiting for Godot.

- Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, is written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.
- Ralph Roister Doister, the first English comedy, is written by Nicholas Udall.
- Pamela, the first novel of English Literature, is written by Samuel Richardson.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopaedia of Britannica.

• Comedy of humours, a dramatic genre most closely associated with the English playwright Ben Jonson from the late 16th century.
• Ben Jonson is called a neo-classicist because he followed the classical rules of drama:
- Every Man in His Humour,
- Every Man Out of His Humour.
• His famous works:
- The Magnetic Lady,
- Volpone,
- The Silent Woman,
- The Alchemist,
- The Devil is an Ass etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ Lecture.

• William Butler Yeats is an Irish dramatist, poet and critic.
• He wrote the preamble of Tagore's 'Gitanjali' in 1912, which later got nobel prize in 1913.
• W. B. Yeats got the nobel prize in 1923.
• His famous poems:
- The Wild Swans at Coole,
- The Tower,
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems,
- The Resurrection,
- The Second Coming,
- The Cat and The Moon,
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree,
- Among School Children,
- The Lord of Harts,
- Falling of Leaves,
- A prayer for My Daughter,
- When You Are Old.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture and An ABC of English Literature.

• John Masefield was a British poet and writer.
• His famous works:
- Midsummer Night,
- End and Beginning,
- Midnight Folk,
- The Everlasting Mercy,
- Collected Poems.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture and An ABC of English Literature.

• The full name of E. M. Forster is Edward Morgan Forster.
• He is a famous English novelist.
• His famous novels:
- A Passage to India,
- Where Angels Fear to Tread,
- The Longest Journey,
- A Room with a View,
- The Celestial Omnibus (Collection of Short Stories),
- Aspects of Novel,
- The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.

Source: Live MCQ lecture and An ABC of English Literature.

• Lord Alfred Tennyson was a famous Victorian Poet.
• He is best known for his melodious language.
• He represented of the Victorian Age.
• His famous poems:
- Oenone,
- Ulysses,
- Lotus Eaters,
- Locksley Hall,
- Tears Idle Tears,
- Tithonus,
- The Two Voices,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- Vision of Sin,
- Morte D'Arthur etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ lecture.

• Famous quotations of Voltaire:
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Prejudice is the reason for fools.
- I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.

Source: Encyclopaedia of Britannica.

• Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, novelist and dramatist.
• His famous books:
- The Importance of Being Earnest,
- A woman of No Importance,
- An Ideal Husband,
- The Picture of Dorian Grey,
- Lady Windermere's Fan etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.

• William Somerset Maugham is an English Novelist, Playwright and Story writer.
• His famous short stories:
- The Ant and the Grasshopper,
- The Luncheon.
• His famous Novels:
- Of Human Bondage,
- The Sacred Flames,
- The Razor's Edge,
- Cakes and Ale,
- The Musician,
- The Moon and Sixpence,
- Lady Frederick.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture and An ABC of English Literature.

• Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher.
• He was born in Dublin.
• He served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
• His famous quotations:
- Fear is the mother of safety.
- Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness.
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Superstition is the religion of feeble minded persons.

- Francis Bacon is the Father of English Essay and Father of Modern Prose.
- His famous quotations:
- Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability.
- Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, written an exact man.
- Opportunity makes a thief.
- It is impossible to love and be wise.
- History makes man wise.
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
- The secret of success is the constancy of purpose.
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Unmarried men are best friends, best Masters, best servants but not always best subjects.
- Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

• Charles Dickens is the greatest novelist in the Victorian Period.
• His famous novels:
- David Copperfield,
- A Tale of Two Cities,
- Great Expectations,
- Our Mutual Friend,
- Oliver Twist,
- The Christmas Carol,
- The Pickwick Papers,
- The old Curiosity Shop,
- Hard Times,
- The Bleak House etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopaedia of Britannica.

• Ernest Hemingway is a famous American Novelist.
• He got nobel prize in 1954 for his famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea'.
• His other famous novels:
- The Sun Also Rises (First major novel)
- A Farewell to Arms (First written, third published), It is his autobiographical novel.
- The Old Man and the Sea,
- For Whom the Bell Tolls,
- The Dangerous Summer,
- True at First Light,
- The Torrents of Spring etc.


- The Sun Also Rises, the first major novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926.
- Titled Fiesta in England, the novel captures the moods, feelings, and attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living group of disillusioned expatriates in postwar France and Spain.

Source: Encyclopaedia of Britannica.

• John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist.
• He is best known for his tragedies.
• His famous plays:
- The White Devil,
- The Duchess of Malfi.
- The Devil's Law Case etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Live MCQ Lecture.

• H. G. Wells is a British science fiction writer.
• His famous works:
- The Time Machine,
- The Invisible Man,
- The War of the Worlds,
- The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Source: Live MCQ lecture.