William Shakespeare

A different third-person narrator replaces the somewhat pompous gentleman of An Antidote. The book's subect is the relations between the two Placid women, mother and daughter, and the squire's family, the Bustles (who are...

Among her Shakespeare an roles for the company were Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Donalbain in Macbeth, and the King's page in Richard III.

In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike . Playwright Clemence Dane gave a memorial speech...

Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten ; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer and Shakespeare onwards.

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

She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer 's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a...

AD was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (a particularly frequent sitter on account of her...

In 2014 an exhibition of Damer's work in marble, terracotta and bronze was shown at Strawberry Hill. Also on display were her anatomy sketch-book, her prompt copies of plays performed at Richmond House and...

During the intensive bombing of the London Blitz, CD gave readings of Shakespeare in restaurants to anyone who cared to listen.

CD 's experimental play Will Shakespeare was first performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre , London.

Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey and by Ethel Watts (chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service ), the latter of whom hoped that in the future...

Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare 's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London...

It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .