William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...

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...

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...

Many of these novels centre on their protagonist in such a way as to give them a strong generic relationship with the biographies to which she later turned, and the protagonists tend to be either...

She often visited Stratford-on-Avon to meet friends and to see Shakespeare plays; she noted that these trips restored and revitalised her.

MB visited Stratford upon Avon, whose associations with Shakespeareproved a perfect source of inspiration to her.

Railway stations and refreshment rooms were now added to the list of amenities subject to critical comment. Clipped yew hedges near Nettlecombe in North Somerset were regarded as a relic of the past. They noted...

They travelled via Stratford upon Avon, where they were gratified by the historical memory of Shakespeare , and then Ludlow, Montgomery, Dolgellau, and Caernarfon, to the seaside town of Barmouth...

Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA 's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people...

She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire 's paper against Shakespeare (whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable...

A truck came to pick her up in the morning, giving her time to pack only a few warm clothes and books. She mistakenly packed two Bibles, and two collected Shakespeare s (which were...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...