William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .

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...

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...