Scene Category: Literacy

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective who features in a series of texts created by the author Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in ‘A Study…

The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written by Alexandre Dumas, first published in 1844. The novel follows the main protagonist of D’artagnan,…

The Ugly Duckling is a fairy-tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1843. It is one of the author's best known works and has been…

The Hare and the Tortoise is perhaps one of the most well-known of Aesop’s Fables; a collection of tales thought to have originated in ancient…

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm were brothers and a duo of German academics who together collected and published folklore. They are among the most…

Shakespeare’s historical play Richard III was written in the 1590s and follows events, which took place less than 100 years previous. The War of the…

The Tempest was written by William Shakespeare between the years of 1610-1611. First published in 1623, by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, the play is…

A Christmas Carol is a novel that was written by Charles Dickens and first published by Chapman and Hall in 1843. Dickens authored the novel…

The Poem of T'was a Night Before Christmas was first written by an unknown individual, who is now thought to have been Clement Clarke Moore…

Dracula, the Gothic novel, was written by Bram Stoker in London England between the years of 1891-1897. Written as an epistolary novel, the narrative is…