William Shakespeare

CD published A Modern Iago, A Novel in two volumes (whose very title constitutes an allusion to Shakespeare , her second in a novel title).

When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses. Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...

In the Advertisement prefacing her work, MB professes that this is at best but a feeble attempt to illustrate a favourite subject. Its metre is described in the ODNB as accomplished but slavishly Shakespearian

In 2008 AQA , the largest examination board in Britain, decided to ban a poem by CAD called Education for Leisure, because teachers feared it might encourage violent crime. The poem is a dramatic...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...

The title comes from a Shakespeare an sonnet where the speaker says his nature is subdued/ To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. In his foreword WHA expresses resigned regret that poets make...

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...

Dear Brutus, another fantasy play by SJMB , opened at Wyndham's Theatre . Its title quotation, from Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, says that men themselves, not fate, are to blame for their shortcomings.

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...