William Shakespeare

Again her title-page quotes Shakespeare . The novel opens with a musical party in the housekeeper's room at Cassilwood House in Northumberland on the fifth of November at the time of the second Jacobite Rebellion...

In Macbeth—False Memory she professed not to be adaptating Shakespeare , but the play features the murder of one businessman by another, followed by a haunting and a quest for revenge, all in an emphatically...

The book does not reach complete closure in a traditional sense, but the narrator does sense that her father has come back to her consciousness for the last time. She finds solace in her voice:...

AS says she began to write verse when I was introduced to Shakespeare and the English Romantics as a child, and was bewitched by the discovery of rhythm. She began at about twelve to...

Our Lady of the Broken Heart, the garden play mentioned in the volume title, is set in a public Italian garden during the seventeenth century, or any time. In the dedication, AMFR recalls...

The title is a phrase applied to Shakespeare 's Perdita in The Winter's Tale. This book, like others by DG , looks at relations between English and middle European characters.

Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny and the later Holland House, written in the person of the Ghost of La Bruyère. This, in a...

A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson (with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut...

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)...

Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre .

MP 's Catherine is not (like Shakespeare's) Katherine Parr, but is the French-born widow of Henry V , who formed an illicit union in about 1429 with the Welsh prince Owen Tudor , which produced...

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...

According to Linden Peach , the writings of Bertolt Brecht and Mikhail Bakhtin influenced AC 's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went...

This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in...

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...