THE CULTURE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING 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 languagesAlbanianArmenianBaltic

CelticGermanic – 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

GreekSlavic – Bulgarian, Russian, PolishIndo-IranianItalic – 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 – dramatistShareholder – one who owns shares of a company’s stock

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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 ErroresThe 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 veranoThe 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 behath – 3rd person singular for the verb to have

temperate – warmbud – unopened flowerlease – 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 manAnd 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 stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.