William Shakespeare

Invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, GC took off from Let me not to the marriage of true minds for a poem on enduring love with examples from the animal kingdom: swallows homing and...

MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .

DL pursued the Shakespeare -becomes-contemporary idea in her first volume of short stories, Ophelia and the Great Idea. It bore the publication date of 1989.

This has her preface replying to hostile criticism of her for querulous egotism, and for renewing her criticisms of the Smith trustees. She also admits, this time, her economic motive. The number of...

Anne Bradby (later AR ) produced, on commission from Oxford University Press , her first anthology: a World's Classics selection of Shakespeare criticism since the end of the First World War.

The title-page reads: The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, Investigated by Lady Wallace. An epigraph quotes Shakespeare 's Othello: Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice. She...

FK published, under her own name, a collection of reviews and essays written over the course of her lifetime as Notes upon Some of Shakespeare 's Plays.

TB published Rehearsal for Death, a murder mystery in which several of the characters are actors, and Shakespeare is constantly quoted.

For the Jemima Shore mystery Political DeathAF supplied a submerged text in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, which is being produced as part of the action of the novel.

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

MB published To Bed at Noon, the last crime novel she wrote as Joseph Shearing.

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.

HCJ 's next novel, or pair of novellas, was given different titles for London and for New York publication, and was the first of her works to bear her name (as Mrs. C. Jenkin). The...

DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...

PB published an autobiographical novel about the writer's metier, Noble in Reason (whose title quotes from one of Hamlet 's soliloquies).