William Shakespeare

The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

Housman named the influences on his poetry as non-contemporary texts: the border ballads, Shakespeare 's songs, and Heine .

This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS 's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare . This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian...

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...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare on the topic of change, which becomes a central theme of the book. A facsimile reprint with scholarly apparatus appeared in the Chawton House Library Series: Women's Travel Writings, 207-8.

She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

The action, which takes place in a magic forest, fantastically enables second chances which nevertheless fail to be better exploited than the first choices were. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls this the most...

This is unusual: a compliment from a Frenchman to Montagu, whose Shakespeare criticism was anti-Voltaire and therefore anti-French.

MD centred her story on a woman whose life is drifting, who has plenty of leisure but no direction. The idea came to her when she herself was bustling around London on her short visits...

There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton 's...

Tillie Olsen in 1978 pointed out a striking anticipation here of Woolf 's A Room of One's Own: what of the possible Shakespeares we might have had who passed their life from youth upward...

The selection ranges from Shakespeare to Angus Wilson , from the Bible to Liz Lochhead .

An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I . It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it...

Writer Liz Lochhead comments that these tough, transparent fables of longing, of difficult delight and consolation, are romances in the Shakespearian sense.Judith Thurman calls this volume the most Danish of ID 's works...