Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in the history of English literature.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870)
The popularity of his books during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none of his novels has ever gone out of print.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer as well as one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

Vocabulary:
renowned
a celebrity
a body of works
a playwright
a poet
a short story writer

= vermaard, beroemd
= een beroemdheid
= een oeuvre
= een toneelschrijver
= een dichter
= een kortverhaalschrijver