William Shakespeare

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore and Shakespeare , and a review...

She was educated at home by her mother, a tutor, and governesses. Under her mother's instruction, she read Boswell's Life of Johnson, the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Shakespeare , and knew a...

She was a regular member of the audience at Shakespeare performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre .

Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...

His introduction defines the critic's business as to see literature steadily and to see it whole. This, he argues, involves preserving tradition while also recognizing the solitude (a different thing from isolation) which...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

ME 's journals, kept from her youth onwards, often served to write what I want to get rid of. In the mid and later 1930s they break out periodically in a passionate fury of...

BE substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family...

An odd couple on holiday from England (Stanley Williams, his Jamaican immigrant parents' my-son-the-banker, and Jessie O'Donnell, a singer, a foundling raised by nuns in Leeds) drive haphazardly across Europe towards the Middle East...

CF assumes an attitude of outraged dignity: can his antiquarian eyes / My Anglo-Saxon C despise? Her tireless parody is here directed at antiquarian and linguistic learning. Ostensibly, she demands to be wholly disassocated...

She also left large watercolour drawings illustrating the Seven Ages of Man in Shakespeare 's As You Like It, and sketchbooks, many of them filled with Italian scenes.

The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. Hospital patients re-appear:...