William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

NJ published a novel entitled Barren Metal (a title taken from a speech of Antonio in Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice).

TB published Rehearsal for Death, a murder mystery in which several of the characters are actors, and Shakespeare is constantly quoted.

TH 's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, as the author of Desperate Remedies, was in a different style: a love-story whose village setting is pastorally depicted, as the title from Shakespeare suggests.

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...

The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare 's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson included six sonnets from...

Invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, GC took off from Let me not to the marriage of true minds for a poem on enduring love with examples from the animal kingdom: swallows homing and...