William Shakespeare

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.

The title draws on Shakespeare 's exiled duke in As You Like It, who says retirement in the forest will supply books in the running brooks. (II. i, 17) The collection deals partly with...

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

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...

CD published A Modern Iago, A Novel in two volumes (whose very title constitutes an allusion to Shakespeare , her second in a novel title).

The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?

At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...

In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...

In 2008 AQA , the largest examination board in Britain, decided to ban a poem by CAD called Education for Leisure, because teachers feared it might encourage violent crime. The poem is a dramatic...

CS published Shakespeare 's Warwickshire Contemporaries, a collection of biographies which she had written and had already printed separately.

PHJ issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean sonnet.

Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett . In the year before...

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...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

Carl Van Vechten edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS 's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce , Eliot , and...