William Shakespeare

That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...

LP 's Like to Live, also 1991, is set during the invisible years which Hermione, the middle-aged, falsely accused queen of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale, spends hidden and believed dead. Like to...

AMH published her novel Midsummer Eve: A Fairy Tale of Love, bearing the date 1848.

She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...

Mary Cowden Clarke published the work for which she is principally remembered, The Girlhood of Shakespeare 's Heroines; in a series of fifteen tales.

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

Knopf Canada published MA 's Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare 's The Tempest for the Hogarth Shakespeare series which sets out to re-imagine the plays in novel form.

Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an...

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.

MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...