William Shakespeare

Attending a secondary modern school (for those children not selected for grammar school) in Essex, on the north-east borders of London, she hated school and made a habit of sitting at the back...

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...

The title-page signals the novel's concern with evil and revenge by quoting Shakespeare'sOthello. The story turns on the efforts of the female villain Hippolita, otherwise known as Rosalie, to exact bloody vengeance for...

Its title comes from Shakespeare 's As You Like It, whose heroine, Rosalind, admonishes the haughty Phoebe to go down on her knees and thank heaven,fasting, for a good man's love.

At the age of twelve, SD attended her first theatrical event: an amateur production at Broughton Secondary School of Shakespeare 's Othello, which made a great impression.

Janice Thaddeus discusses the prerogative MD assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch 's Lives, who was forgiven...

She judged that EMD dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides or Shakespeare ; in an image...

In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...

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...

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

MD centred her story on a woman whose life is drifting, who has plenty of leisure but no direction. The idea came to her when she herself was bustling around London on her short visits...

Writer Liz Lochhead comments that these tough, transparent fables of longing, of difficult delight and consolation, are romances in the Shakespearian sense.Judith Thurman calls this volume the most Danish of ID 's works...

Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...

EHD took the title for the collection (and for the first story) from a line in Shakespeare 's Henry IV: Were it good / To set the exact wealth of all our states /...

FMD published fiction in magazines launched with his brother. The first of his major novels, Zapiski iz podpol'ia (Notes from Underground), appeared in 1864. That year marked his descent into poverty but also...