Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, January 19, 1809 - Baltimore, October 7, 1849) was a writer, poet, critic and journalist romantic U.S., widely recognized as one of the masters of the universal story short, which was one of the early practitioners in the country. It was renovated in the Gothic novel, remembered especially for his tales of terror. Considered the inventor of the detective story, also contributed with several works to the emerging genre of science fiction. On the other hand, was the first writer who attempted to write his modus vivendi, which had disastrous consequences for him.

Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist who postulated that all species of living things have evolved over time from a common ancestor through a process called natural selection. The evolution was accepted as fact by the scientific community and much of the public life of Darwin, while his theory of evolution by natural selection was not considered the primary explanation of the evolution process until the 1930s, and now forms the basis of the modern evolutionary synthesis. As amended, the scientific discoveries of Darwin still the founding act of biology as a science, since they constitute a logical explanation that unifies observations about the diversity of life.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1896 - Hollywood, California, December 21, 1940) was an American novelist of the era of jazz. In his novels express the disappointment of the privileged youth of his generation who dragged her lassitude of jazz and gin (On this side of Paradise, 1920), in Europe on the French Riviera (Soft is the Night, 1934) or decorum of the fascinating cities (The Great Gatsby, 1925). He is considered one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. He was spokesman for the "Lost Generation", those Americans born in the last decade of the nineteenth century they came to mature during the First World War. He wrote five novels and dozens of short stories covering such themes as "youth" or "despair" with extraordinary honesty to translate their emotions. His heroes, attractive, confident and convicted, shine brightly before explode ( "Show me a hero," Fitzgerald once said, "and you will write a tragedy), and their heroines are beautiful and complex

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BIOGRAPHY

William Shakespeare (Great Britain, 1564-1616)
English poet and playwright, widely regarded as one of the best playwrights of the literature. He was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The young Shakespeare had to start working as an apprentice butcher, by the difficult economic situation his father. Another witness, became a schoolteacher. The references in his works on hunting and falcons.
In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a farmer, with whom he had a daughter, Susanna, in 1583, and two twins, a boy, who died at 11 years old and a girl in 1585. Apparently, he had to leave Stratford andalusia surprising hunting illegally on the property of Sir Thomas Lucy, the magistrate of the city. The publication of two poems erotic as the fashion of the time, Venus and Adonis (1593) and the rape of Lucretia (1594) and its Sonetos earned him a reputation for brilliant Renaissance poet. The life of Shakespeare in London was marked by a series of financial arrangements that allowed him to share the benefits of the theater company in which it acted, the Chamberlain's Men, later called King's Men, and the two theaters possessed it, The Globe and Blackfriars.It was in 1599 when his company performed the works of the deposition and murder of King Richard II, at the request of a group of courtiers who conspired against Queen Elizabeth, led by a former favorite of the queen, Robert Devereux, and the Earl of Southampton, although the investigation that followed the event, the theater company was acquitted of any complicity. From the year 1608, Shakespeare's dramatic production decreased considerably, apparently was in his hometown, Stratford, where he bought a house called New Place. He died on April 23 1616 and was buried in the church of Stratford.



Until the eighteenth century, Shakespeare was considered only as a genius difficult. Nineteenth century onwards, his works have received the recognition they deserve in the world. Almost all his works continue today represent and are a source of inspiration for numerous theatrical experiments, reported as a deep understanding of human nature, as exemplified by the perfect characterization of their multifaceted characters. His skill in the use of poetic language and dramatic resources, able to create an aesthetic unity from a multitude of expressions and actions, has no par in the literature. Subsequent British playwrights as John Webster, John Ford and Philip Masing borrowed ideas from their works and their influence on the restoration of the authors, especially John Dryden, William Congreve and Thomas Otway is more than evident.