William Shakespeare

This is pure fun, heralded by the note below the cast-list: The Scene to take place wherever one pleases, provided the Costumes are pretty enough. There is only one female character: Sylvette, whom the cast-list...

The academic background gives DLS an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe . Her Oxford is the preserve...

The book is simple and singular in plot and sparse in characters compared with CMW 's first, but here too a central character is pregnant through most of the action. Here too literary references come...

This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson 's Ossian on the title-page and Robert Blair (The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare and Milton for the succeeding volumes. It opens...

Finding hisprogress in a noble art unjustly barred, he now writes bitterly of the way that intellectual property is downgraded and exploited in contrasted with all real property, which is...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

NM based the overpowering Lamprey family on an actual family of old friends who were a presence both in New Zealand and in England: Tahu Rhodes and his wife Helen or Nelly (a peer's daughter)...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare : later on Pope , Thomson , Thomas Tickell , Charles Cotton , and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central...

As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...

Matters begin to come to their melodramatic head when Margaret comes to Daisy to complain, with passionate if suppressed rage, that the cleaners have been in her room while she was in London. It emerges...

MFCP 's title-page quotes Shakespeare . Her novel is a first-person narrative by Augusta O'Flaherty, the child of a mixed marriage between an Irish squire of ancient Catholic stock and the violently anti-Irish daughter of...

The title-page quotes Milton and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare or Byron or attributed only...

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...

The title-page quotes James Beattie and Shakespeare . For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars . FID 's preface declares her intention of reporting the...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning