William Shakespeare

GG 's doctoral thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, set out to demonstrate that the lovers' relationships portrayed in these stylised plays are deeply imagined, not merely conventional.

EI published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare heading the list.

In Your Life as a WaveRP , invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, built on Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore in two sections based on the successive movement: incoming...

From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

JW published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean plot. She dedicated it to the...

Her most most notable illustrations were done between 1790 and 1806 for a 5-volume edition of Shakespeare 's history plays, extant at Althorp in Northamptonshire.

This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...

GBS published another memoir volume, Benefits Forgot (quoted from Shakespeare 's As You Like It), which she says she strung on the theme of gratitude.

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

As she was preparing to stage La Prise de l'école de Madhubai in 1984, she met Ariane Mnouchkine , the director of the experimental Théâtre du Soleil , who was known for her innovation in...

The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare

The title poem celebrates the time of winter solstice and red berries variously identified in several traditions with shed blood. The poems are often touched with darkness and strangeness: with the sun turning black as...

Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams...

EN does not come clean here about the complicated sexual and genealogical relationships in her family, but she gives a sensitive account of her own development and attitudes as a writer. It is here that...