Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
URGENCH STATE UNIVERSITY


FACULTY OF FOREIGN PHILOLOGY


Course work
ON THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
THEME: “The description of truth and issue in Shakespeare's histories ”

Supervisor: Rakhimova Khilola (senior teacher) of “The English Language and Literature” department

Done by: Nurmatov Sirojbek Group 199 student of the “The Foreign Language and Literature” speciality

Urganch – 2021

Contents

• 
  BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
• 
  CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
  
• 
  THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
  
• 
  KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
  
• 
  USED LITERATURE
  
• 
  APPENDIX
  

ENTRY 1. BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Full name	Willam Shakespeare
Pen name	Shakespeare
Born	on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England
Died	in his home town of Stratford on 23 April 1616, aged 52
Nationality	English
Education	at the King's New School in Stratford, a free school chartered in 1553
Occupation	Playwright, poet, actor
Genre(s)	Comedy, history, tragedy, play
Notable work(s)	Romea and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet,Otello, The Tempest
Award(s), Prize(s)	The Shakespeare Prize was an annual prize for writing or performance awarded to a British citizen by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation.
Quotation(s)	‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts’
Uzbek (and Russian) contemporaries	by Russian poet Samuil Marshak and Uzbek poet Hurshid Davron
Family of the author
Marriage	Anne Hathaway (m. 1582)
Children	Susanna Hall Hamnet Shakespeare Judith Quiney

ENTRY 2. CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR

YEARS	DESCRIPTION
1564	William Shakespeare was born in Startford-upon-Avon
1582	Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway
1583	Shakespeare's first child Susanna was born
1585	Shakespeare's twins, Judith and Hamnet were born
1592	Shakespeare was first alluded to as a playwright, in Greene's Groates worth of Wit
1593	Shakespeare's first printed poem, Venus and Andones appears
1594	Shakespeare's first printed play, Titus Andronicus, appears
1596	Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, is granted a coat of arms, Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies
1597	Shakespeare purchases New Place in Startford-upon-Avon
1598	Shakespeare is first mentioned as a sonneteer and author of 12 plays in Palladis Tamia
1599	Shakespeare's father is granted a confirmation of arms, Shakespeare's acting company talks down its old theatre and uses the timber to build the Globe
1600	Extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poetry appear in Bel-vedere, the first printed literary commonplace book to include plays
1601	Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare dies
1603	The heralds dispute the legitimacy of a coat of arms, including Shakespeare's; Shakespeare ratifies his purchase of New Place
1602	Shakespeare's acting company, the Lord Chamberlain's men becomes the King's Men as the accession of James l; Hamlet appears in print
1607	Shakespeare's daughter Susanna marries John Hall
1608	Shakespeare's mother, Mary Shakespeare dies, her granddaughter Elizabeth is born
1609	Shakespeare's Sonnets appears in print
1613	Shakespeare purchases the Black friers gatehouse in London
1616	Shakespeare writes his will
1623	The first Folio is published; Shakespeare's widow Anne dies

ENTRY 3. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR

Years	Full title of the work	Type of work
1623	Macbeth	Tragedy
1603	Othello	Tragedy
between 1599 and 1601	Hamlet	Tragedy
1606	King Lear	Tragedy
1597	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
1610–1611	The Tempest	Comedy
mid-1590s	King John	Historical
between 1605 and 1608.	Coriolanus	Tragedy
1611	Cymbeline	Tragedy
mid-1590s	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
1599	As you like it	Comedy

ENTRY 4. KEY FACTS OF THE WORK

Full title	Othello
Author	Willam Shakespeare
Type of work	Tragedy
Genre	Tragedy
Language	English
Time & place Written	In Venice. 1603
Date of first publication	in 1622
Narrator	There is no narrator
Setting (time)	1605
Setting (place)	Venica
Themes, motifs	The Incompatibility of Military Heroism & Love
Translation into Uzbek	Jamol Kamol translated in 1980
Translation into Russian	There is no translation

ENTRY 5. Your Thoughts

Answer the following questions
1	What did you learn from the book?
	My outlook extended and interested in deeply. Even I watched film. I learned from this book faithfullnes real love. Besides that I learned the biography, education, family life of the author.
2	Why did the author choose such setting?
	Shakespeare composed deeply this Othello. Also it was translated different language. Shakespeare freely breaks the rule of place and time units; at the end of the tragic hero responsible for his own fall, although his plan was noble.
3	Why did the author finish the work in the way he did it?
	His purpose was to end up this work. Has interested in greatly. Shakespeare considered many aspects of human life, but especially the nature of political power and the problems of powerful people.
4	What questions would you ask the author if you had such chance?
	If I had such chance I would ask how to great successful reason? Why did you choose these themes in your novels? Why did you end up your novels?
5	Would you recommend reading this book? Why or why not?
	I would share this book because of interesting and inspired work.I recommend reading not only this book but also other books which was comedis and tragadies.

USED LITERATURE
Ackroyd, Peter (2006). Shakespeare: The Biography. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-7493-8655-9.
Adams, Joseph Quincy (1923). A Life of William Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 1935264.
Baldwin, T.W. (1944). William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greek. 1. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press. OCLC 359037.
Barroll, Leeds (1991). Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0
Bentley, G.E. (1961). Shakespeare: A Biographical Handbook. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25042-2. OCLC 356416.
Berry, Ralph (2005). Changing Styles in Shakespeare. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-35316-8.
Bevington, David (2002). Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22719-9.
Bloom, Harold (1995). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
Bloom, Harold (1999). Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books.