William Shakespeare

EN does not come clean here about the complicated sexual and genealogical relationships in her family, but she gives a sensitive account of her own development and attitudes as a writer. It is here that...

Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams...

As she was preparing to stage La Prise de l'école de Madhubai in 1984, she met Ariane Mnouchkine , the director of the experimental Théâtre du Soleil , who was known for her innovation in...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

Turning from history to literature, EPL notes that whereas in life women are assumed to be weak, in literature they are depicted as and admired for being strong, wilful, and assertive. The only exception she...

Here KN writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively),

This book makes some pretence of being an early text, though the way that Nicholas Moldwarp is named and introduced suggests the superior eye of posterity. Manning once again imitates not only early spelling, but...

The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism that includes Mary Singleton and a further six virgins, deplore the displacement of Shakespeare 's original King Lear by Nahum Tate

CT 's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare , Dryden , Otway , and Nathaniel Lee . The play, set in late fifteenth-century France, concerns royal marriage. Charles VIII

Severo, brother of the heroine, Lellia, has a pathological distrust of women which is rather lamely explained by his having loved a faithless, wicked woman who then drowned herself. Despite his excesses, Lellia succeeds in...

Randall Martin notes how Dowriche's use of Gentillet/Patrick brings her work into the anti-Machiavel tradition. Her Machiavel is a female one: Catherine de Medici (which was not unusual). Her Catherine speaks in gendered terms when...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

This was one of the earliest novels of sensibility, and was probably influenced by Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph. Its sentimental content, however, co-exists both with comment on politics and with a coherent plot...

Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought...

The canonical name of Shakespeare was sufficient warrant to offer children stories which did not reliably reward virtue and punish vice, or make clear what action ought to be taken in response to events on...