William Shakespeare

Although Shakespeare's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier

The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. Hospital patients re-appear:...

The theatre where the action unfolds is the Dolphin, from Marsh's novel of 1966. The personages include a range of life-larger actors including a mysterious young New Zealander of Maori blood and the looming, awful...

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.

Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare. The story has no chapter divisions, though it is often broken by flashback or by letters. While melodramatic, it is unconventional in its avoidance of the standard courtship plot, happy...

This is a work of fiction, not documentary. It relates the stories of four ex-prostitutes sympathetically, presenting a strong argument for social reform. According to scholar Katherine Binhammer, it is the most feminist among...

JP divides the experiences of life into three stages: anticipation—reality—and reminiscence; and it is more difficult than it at first appears to be, to decide on the comparative extent and value of each. Hope is...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace, Shakespeare, and Milton to...

Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house...

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Women's Auxiliary Services, and the lives of ordinary...

EHD took the title for the collection (and for the first story) from a line in Shakespeare's Henry IV: Were it good / To set the exact wealth of all our states /...

Here AH opens by quoting Shakespeare, and applies her usual vivacious style and sense of immediacy to the story of a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, and eventually released only to find his wife...

The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. According to critic...

Most of the stories concern love, and some make creative use of the lives or works of other authors, like Tolstoy and Daphne Du Maurier. In The Closing Door RT created a character who...