William Shakespeare

LP 's Like to Live, also 1991, is set during the invisible years which Hermione, the middle-aged, falsely accused queen of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale, spends hidden and believed dead. Like to...

The title is quoted from Shakespeare 's Hamlet: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. The book is dedicated to R. L.

That same year MEC composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion...

The title of this column implied that like Shakespeare 's Autolycus it would offer unconsidered trifles, some of them purloined. Its authoring by a different woman on each day of the week ended in...

While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish and my long plague. By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...

Together with Rokia Traoré , a singer-songwriter from Mali, and Peter Sellars , a theatre director from the USA,TM created a musical work called...

TB published an account of her Asian journey of two years before, entitled (quoting Shakespeare 's Antony) In the East My Pleasure Lies.

John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .

She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare 's famously irresolute hero, and...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought...

Whereas the ballad-opera (based on Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew) was misogynist, as its title suggests, LP 's prologue was vehemently pro-woman.

Attached to Septimus is a different cluster of characters that includes his anxious young Italian wife and his doctors, the bluff Dr Holmes, who tells him to pull himself together, and the dogmatic and unfeeling...

These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'...

The canonical name of Shakespeare was sufficient warrant to offer children stories which did not reliably reward virtue and punish vice, or make clear what action ought to be taken in response to events on...