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Vanity Fair, an English novel by ______ (author),features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers.

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______ (author),the “father of Enlish poetry,” wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee and , for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost , Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must ,And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art to Fate, Chance, kings, and men, And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse , And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,And better than thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?One short sleepe past, wee wake , And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

“Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate” is written by______ , Britain’s and perhaps the world’s greatest playwright and poet, who wrote 13 Comedies, 13 Historical Plays, 6 Tragedies, 4 Tragicomedies, as well as 154 sonnets

•A is a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a talks to herself — thinking out loud, as it were — so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally. The most well-known soliloquy in the English language appears in Act III, Scene 1 of Hamlet.