William Shakespeare

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

In April 1962 NM delivered the Macmillan Brown Lectures at the University of Canterbury, three lectures under the title The Three Cornered World: Shakespeare in the Theatre, covering the contributions to theatrical production...

IDH published her first novel, Not Easily Jealous (whose title comes from one of the hero's final speeches in Shakespeare 's Othello).

H. D. published By Avon River: the Avon is the one flowing through Stratford, and the book celebrates the Shakespeare an moment in literature.

JJ 's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French .

In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...

It was published by J. Harris , with a quotation from Shakespeare on the title-page, and proved one of BH 's most successful titles, in France and the USA as well as in England.

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...

At the age of eight, GS tried to write a Shakespeare an drama. She abandoned this project, however, for the less demanding melodrama, Snatched from Death; or, The Sundered Sisters.

GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

IDH 's A New Othello, A Novel ran as a serial in London Society, before appearing in three volumes in 1890. She radically alters and complicates the plot of Shakespeare 's play.

GHS worked with her husband on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner 's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready...