William Shakespeare

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...

This charming film approaches Indian-British relations through the motif of a touring theatre company which had its palmy days performing Shakespeare in the time of the British Raj, offering English cultural capital for the pride...

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...

Fox was also in attendance at CB 's lecture on Female Characters in our Literature, where the lecturer apparently observed that in Shakespeare the character is everything, often the circumstances in the different plays...

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer and Shakespeare , stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her...

NS opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. As in The Whicharts...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

In providing readers with a guide to understanding Shakespeare 's plays, Smith takes a lively approach: at one point she warns her readers that Falstaff, it must be said, is not always fit company for...

It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...

The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald and Lady Blessington —hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom...