William Shakespeare

Here CS attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare . She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean...

It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

In this work, CSplaces Shakespeare in his Warwickshire context . . . by presenting brief sketches of neighbors and relations whose lives touched his own. The subjects CS chooses are not generally known...

The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore and Shakespeare , and a review...

This charming film approaches Indian-British relations through the motif of a touring theatre company which had its palmy days performing Shakespeare in the time of the British Raj, offering English cultural capital for the pride...

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...

Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory , and six unpublished poems. A...

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

NS opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. As in The Whicharts...

His introduction defines the critic's business as to see literature steadily and to see it whole. This, he argues, involves preserving tradition while also recognizing the solitude (a different thing from isolation) which...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

In providing readers with a guide to understanding Shakespeare 's plays, Smith takes a lively approach: at one point she warns her readers that Falstaff, it must be said, is not always fit company for...