William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ 's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...

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 ...

Dear Brutus, another fantasy play by SJMB , opened at Wyndham's Theatre . Its title quotation, from Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, says that men themselves, not fate, are to blame for their shortcomings.

AJV was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden 's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller 's Batheaston Vase...

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...

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

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...

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...