EUROPEAN

LITERATURE
PRESENTED BY: GROUP 4
WHAT IS EUROPE?
• EUROPE IS THE SECOND SMALLEST CONTINENT IN THE WORLD.
• EUROPE IS COMMONLY COSIDERED TO BE SEPARATED FROM ASIA BY
THE WATERSHED DIVIDES OF THE URAL AND CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS.
• ITALY, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM AND
NETHERLANDS ARE HAVING THEIR MAIN TERRITORY IN EUROPE.
CULTURE
• EUROPEAN CULTURE IS GENERALLY LINKED TO THE CLASSICAL
DEFINITION OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

• WESTERN CULTURE IS THE SET OF LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, POLITICAL,

ARTISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES WHICH SET IT APART FROM
OTHER CIVILIZATIONS.
FAMOUS AUTHORS/WRITERS AND POETS IN
EUROPE.
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• ALEXANDRE DUMAS
• VICTOR MARIE HUGO
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(1564-1616)
• AN ENGLISH POET, PLAYWRIGHT, ACTOR AND WORLD’S GREATEST
DRAMATIST.
• REGARDED AS THE “ENGLAND’S NATIONAL POET AND “BARD OF AVON’’
• HIS EXTANT WORKS, INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS OF 39 PLAYS, 154
SONNETS, TWO LONG NARRATIVE POEMS AND FEW OTHER VERSES.
• HIS PLAYS HAD BEEN TRANSLATED INTO EVERY MAJOR LIVING LANGUAGE
AND ARE PERFORMED MORE OFTEN THAN THOSE OF ANY OTHER
PLAYWRIGT.
• SHAKESPEARE PRODUCED MOST OF HIS KNOWN WORKS BETWEEN
1589-1613.
• HIS EARLY PLAYS WERE PRIMARILY COMEDIES AND HISTORIES AND
ARE REGARDED AS SOME OF THE BEST WORKS PRODUCED IN THESE
GENRES.
• UNTIL ABOUT 1608, HE WROTE MAINLY TRAGEDIES AMONG THEM ARE:
• HAMLET
• OTHELLO
• KING LEAR
• MACBETH
• ROMEO AND JULIET
VICTOR MARIE HUGO(1802-1885)
• A FRENCH AUTHOR AND A POET.
• CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST AND BEST KNOWN FRENCH
WRITER.
• IN FRANCE, HUGO IS KNOWN PRIMARILY FOR HIS POETRY
COLLECTIONS, SUCH AS CONTEMPLACION AND LA L’EGENDE DES
SIELES.
• HUGO WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE ROMANTIC LITERARY,
MOVEMENT WIT HIS PLAY CROMWELL AND DRAMA ‘HERNANI’
• MANY OF HIS WORKS HAVE INSPIRED MUSIC, BOTH DURING HIS
LIFETIME AND AFTER HIS DEATH INCLUDING THE MUSICALS NOTRE
DAME DE PARIS AND LE’S MISERABL’ES.
• HIS WORKS TOUCHES UPON MOST OF THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
ISSUES.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS(1802-1870)
• A FRENCH WRITER
• HIS WORKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES AND
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY READ FRENCH AUTHOR.
• HE WROTE NUMEROUS MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND TRAVEL BOOKS, HIS
PUBLISHED BOOKS TOTALLED 100,000 PAGES.
• IN 1840’s FOUNDED THE THREATRE HISTORIQUE IN PARIS, FRANCE.
• MANY OF HIS HISTORICAL NOVELS WERE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS
SERIALS INCLUDING:

• THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

• THE THREE MUSKETEERS
• THE VICOMTE OF BRAGELONNE
• THE KNIGHT OF SAINTE-HERMINE (UNFINISHED BECAUSE OF HIS
DEATH)
SAMUEL JOHNSON(1704-1784)
• WAS AN ENGLISH LITERATURE POET, PLAYWRIGHT, ESSAYIST,
MORALIST, LITERARY CRITIC, BIOGRAPHY EDITOR, AND
JANE AUSTIN(1775-1817)
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE(1749-1832)
MEMBERS
• ANDAYA, DARWIN
• CAFÉ, JESSA
• CAGUICLA BERNADETH
• GUTIEREZ CIELO
• KATIGBAK, KATRINA
• MACEDA, ANGEL KOLIN