William Shakespeare

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...

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...

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

MW published her retelling of Shakespeare 's play The Tempest: a historical novel, Indigo; or, Mapping the Waters.

This book has proved fruitful and positive, generating many reviews and substantial scholarly articles, written from several perspectives. These include its focus on the untold story of the women in Shakespeare 's Tempest, and...

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...

Her biographer, Katharine Anthony , finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière and Shakespeare ; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought.

HSW 's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare , Coleridge , and Whitman —and she read...

As a child Mary Meredith (later MW ) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine.

The title refers primarily to a legend about a wand of palm (the country name for willow) which brings good luck if it is found on Palm Sunday (when, traditionally, English people carried branches of...

Both William Michael and Christina Rossetti greatly admired this play. William Michael called it the supreme thing amid the work of all British poetesses, and again so fine that I hardly discern where its...

Fire, addressed to Yeats and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare (Does not our life consist of the four elements?), is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...

PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.