William Shakespeare

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...

EAR published Summer's Lease, a novel whose epigraph comes from the Shakespeare sonnet (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) which contains the words of its title.

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...

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

GA 's domestic novel Woman's Friendship was issued posthumously. She had passionately defended her choice of topic by citing the authority of Shakespeare .

After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray nonetheless encouraged EW to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW sketched...

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

EG published a didactic and critical work, The Morality of Shakespeare 's Drama Illustrated.

CS published Shakespeare 's Family, which is largely a record of the poet's ancestors and descendants.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...

CS published Burbage and Shakespeare 's Stage, a biography of James Burbage.