William Shakespeare

The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...

This time the novel's hidden template is Shakespeare 's The Tempest; IM also made use of her abortive engagement in 1945 to David Hicks . Among her usual large cast of characters...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

The four characters, who meet periodically, chat, complain, and reminisce. They also rehearse as the witches in Shakespeare 's Macbeth. They dance, they backchat. To a happy retirement, Katie. . . . To gravetime...

A Beginner tells the story of Emma Jocelyn, a young woman who writes a novel called Miching Mallecho. (The title, drawn from Hamlet, elicits the following exchange between Emma and her aunt in...

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

The book is headed by a quotation from As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare : Cupid hath clapped him on the shoulder. It opens with Billie Briscoe, a music-hall comedian, hating himself, hating his profession, thinking...

RP takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...

Critic Amanda Burgess sees this as perhaps the earliest example of the Irish national tale, and of a shift in RMR 's literary focus from England to Ireland which coincided with her own move in...

This novel is a comedy of manners set in London in springtime, the start of the social season. Critic Charles Burkhart suggests that the title alludes to Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night; it also, paradoxically...