William Shakespeare

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey and by Ethel Watts (chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service ), the latter of whom hoped that in the future...

In the first months of 1834 AEB found herself again in ill-health. She lost her sight and was confined to her bedroom, where she amused herself by repeating passages from Shakespere [sic], or inventing plots...

After the Second World War, and Influenced by her varied studies (of Shakespeare , Mallarmé , Colette , and of Persia) as well as by her perceptions of contemporary European warfare, Bryher wrote...

The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. Hospital patients re-appear:...

The first half of the story is set in an imaginary western Irish village called Cloonoila, a strange but utterly convincing hybrid of the idyllic and the stultifyingly parochial. The second half is set in...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare 's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London...

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...

But the most interesting feature of Midnight Weddings is the discussion of novels and novel-writing with which it opens. Meeke defends the function of novels (which, of course, must offer a good moral) and the...

EHD took the title for the collection (and for the first story) from a line in Shakespeare 's Henry IV: Were it good / To set the exact wealth of all our states /...

Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre .

Here AH opens by quoting Shakespeare , and applies her usual vivacious style and sense of immediacy to the story of a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, and eventually released only to find his wife...