LANGUAGE WITH SAKSHI

"Howards End" is a novel by "E.M Forster", which is a name of a house. Forster started writing it in 1908 and published in 1910. It is considered Forster's masterpiece work. It was given 38th position out of hundred novels in 1998. About Author E.M Forster was born in 1879 and died in 1970. He was an English fiction writer and essayist. Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy, including "A Room With a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910) and "A Passage to India" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years. Forster's two best known work, "A Passage to India" and "Howards End", explore the irreconcilability of class differences. A Room With a View also shows how questions of propriety and class can make human connection difficult. Plot Summary The story of Howards End revolves around three familie...

"Othello, the Moor of Venice", is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1603. Shakespeare wrote this play in blank verse, it is a five act play. About Author Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is known as the greatest dramatist of the both of the Era, "Elizabethan" and "Jacobean". He was born on 23 April, 1564 and died on 23 April, 1616. He is often called "England's National Poet" and "The Bard of Avon". His extant works including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses. He was a writer of "English Renaissance" movement. Some of his famous plays are Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Henry 5, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, King Lear etc. The play "Othello" was written at the ending time of Elizabethan Era. This age is a...

"Murder in the Cathedral" is a verse drama by "T.S Eliot". It was first performed in 1935, that portrays the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in the Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry 2nd in 1170. The play is devided into two parts and in between the parts there is an interlude. About Author "Thomas Stearns Eliot" was born on 26 September, 1888 and died on 4 January, 1965. He was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English language modernist poetry. He was educated from Harvard University. His best known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Four Quarters" (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935) and "The Cocktail Party" (1949). He was awarded for t...

"Pygmalion" is a play by "George Bernad Shaw" named after a Greek mythological figure. It is a five act play about a lower class poor flower girl and high English class people. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. About Author G.B Shaw was born on 26 July, 1856 and died on 2 November, 1950. He was an Irish playwright, critic and political activist. His influence on western theater culture and politics extended from the 1880 to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as "Man and Superman" (1902), "Pygmalion" (1912) and "Saint Joan" (1923). Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation and in 1925 was awarded the "Nobel Prize" in literature. Shaw published a collected edition of his plays in 1934, comprising forty - two works. Plot Summary "Pygmalion" is a comedy about a phonetics expert, Henry Higgins, who as a kind of social experi...

"The University Wits" is a group of great scholars and writers. In which include playwrights, poets, pamphleteers. These writers were considered as the earlier professional writers in London. University Wits were highly educated, they all were educated from Oxford and  Cambridge University  so, they are called University Wits and so they are different from the other writers. Only one writer "Thomas Kyd" was not educated from any University but he comes under University Wits. University Wits were actively associated with the theatre. And the plays written by them mark a pronounced stage of development over the drama which existed before them. With their dramatic work, they paved the way for the great Shakespeare who was indebted to them in numerous ways. The Contribution of University Wits to the Drama University Wits laid a sure basis for the English theatre. For understanding appropriately the contribution of the Universi...