Transcript The United Kingdom

THE CULTURE OF THE ENGLISHSPEAKING PEOPLES
THE UNITED KINGDOM
Prof. Ida María Ayala Rodríguez, Phd
The United Kingdom
Countries where English is spoken
•United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Ireland
•United States
•Canada
•Australia
•New Zealand
•South Africa
•Zimbabwe
•Jamaica, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and
Tobago, and other Caribbean countries.
Indo-European languages
Albanian
Armenian
Baltic
Celtic
Germanic – 1. West Germanic – Gothic
2. North Germanic – Icelandic, Norwegian, Faroese, Danish,
Swedish
3. East Germanic - English, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, Low
German, High
German, Afrikaans, Yiddish
Greek
Slavic – Bulgarian, Russian, Polish
Indo-Iranian
Italic – Romance languages
Groups that inhabited the
British Islands
•Celts – law, feet, geese, mice
•Romans – priest, altar, psalm
•Angles, Jutes Saxons - the verb to be,
cut, both, egg, sky
•Normans - armor, court, amour, baron,
noble, count, prince, duke ; pig – pork; cow
– beef
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the following verbs:
become – write – marry – be born – call – be staged- be
William Shakespeare ________on April 23, 1564, in
Stratford-Upon- Avon. He _____________ and from
the marriage three children________________. He
_____________ an actor and shareholder in the
Company The Chamberlain’s Men, later __________
King’s Men. He _________ plays, comedies, and
poetry.
His plays ___________ in the most important
theatre in London, The Globe. He ___________ one
of the greatest playwrights and poets of the English
language and of world literature.
Playwright
Shareholder
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1565, in
Stratford-Upon- Avon. He married and three
children were born. He became an actor in the
company The Chamberlain’s Men, later called
King’s Men. He wrote plays (tragedies, comedies
tragicomedies) and poetry. His plays were staged in
the most important theatre in London, The Globe.
He is one of the greatest playwrights and poets of
the English language and of world literature.
Playwright – dramatist
Shareholder – one who owns shares of a company’s
stock
William Shakespeare (15641616)
Historical Tragedies:
Henry VI, Richard III, Titus Andronicus,
Henry IV (I and II parts), Henry V, Richard II,
Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra,
Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Timon of
Athens, Henry III, Henry VI
Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Macbeth
Othello, the Moor of Venice
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
Comedies
The Comedy of Errors –
La Comedia de Errores
The Taming of the Shrew –
La fierecilla domada
Two Gentlemen of Verona –
Los dos hidalgos de Verona
Love’s Labor’s Lost –
Trabajos de Amor perdidos
Midsummer Night’s Dream –
Sueño de una noche de verano
The Merchant of Venice El Mercader de Venecia
Comedies
Much Ado About Nothing –
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces
As You Like It –
Como gustes (Como gustéis)
Twelfth Night –
La duodécima noche, o La noche de epifanía
The Merry Wives of Windsor –
Las alegres Comadres de Windsor, Las Alegres casadas de Windsor
All’s Well that Ends Well –
Lo que bien empieza, bien acaba, o A buen final no hay mal principio
Measure for Measure –
Medida por medida
Tragicomedies
Pericles
Cymbeline
A Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
Excerpt from Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a
date:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade…
Thou – personal pronoun, You
thee – a form of thou used as a the object of a
verb or preposition
thy - the second person singular possessive
art – 2nd person singular of verb to be
hath – 3rd person singular for the verb to have
temperate – warm
bud – unopened flower
lease – a period of time
The protagonist or main character – the
most important character in a novel, play,
story or other work of fiction.
Monologue – a speech uttered by one
speaker, either to others or as if alone; in a
soliloquy the speaker is supposed to be
overheard while alone
The speaker– the person who speaks in
the poem does not necessarily have to be
the poet. It is called the speaker, an
unknown person who speaks in the
poem. It can be a woman, a man, a child,
an object.
Figures of speech
Alliteration - The use of the same sound or
sounds, especially consonants, at the
beginning of several words that are close
together.
Examples: cute cats
the sound of silence
Many a man
And live alone in the bee-loud glade
Figures of speech
Imagery – is the use of vivid figurative
language to represent objects, actions, or
ideas.
Metaphors -an expression which describes a
person or object by referring to something
that is considered to have similar
characteristics.
'The mind is an ocean', 'the city is a jungle',
‘you are my sunshine’
Figures of speech
Simile - an expression comparing two
unlike things, always including the
words `as' or `like'.
'She walks in beauty, like the night...'
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
Out, out brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.