William Shakespeare

Benger wrote an impromptu poem in the presence of one W. J. S., A Lament: on the Paucity of Information Respecting the Life and Character of Shakespeare—a fitting subject for a biographer.

James Boswell drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare Illustrated; this edition was never completed.

PF published The Willow Cabin, whose title echoes the words of Shakespeare 's Viola in Twelfth Night, telling Orsino (who thinks her a boy) what she would do were she in love.

CS published Shakespeare 's Industry.

JM published (and titled from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary, which takes her through a year of commentary on herself and the world around her.

DLS 's third Harriet Vane detective novel, Gaudy Night, was published; its unusual combination of feminism and romance has made it probably her best-known book.

She collaborated with her old friend the actor Jonathan Elsom on a one-man vehicle for him entitled Sweet Mr. Shakespeare, incorporating a mixture of biography, anecdotes, sonnets and speeches.

AS entitled her third novel Broken Toys, and dedicated it to her brother Charles Page Wood , with a quotation about friendship from Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice.

TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.

TB published an account of her Asian journey of two years before, entitled (quoting Shakespeare 's Antony) In the East My Pleasure Lies.

The title is quoted from Shakespeare 's Hamlet: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. The book is dedicated to R. L.

John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .

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