William Shakespeare

This time the novel's hidden template is Shakespeare 's The Tempest; IM also made use of her abortive engagement in 1945 to David Hicks . Among her usual large cast of characters...

This play provoked Samuel Daniel to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra. Though apparently never acted, Antonius was much admired...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

The title-page (like several earlier ones of BH ) quotes Shakespeare . The novel opens in 1726, with Catherine the first holding court in Russia after Peter the Great 's death. She had come to...

The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) a mother and daughter as castaways on an island: the mother emulates Crusoe in resourcefulness—until the discovery of male castaways gives...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, Oh serpent heart . . . . Though slightly schematic in plan, the novel features lively and winning pictures of family life. The marriages made by...

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...

Its title-page quotes from Akenside , but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare , several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross 's...

She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a...

RP takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,...

Critic Amanda Burgess sees this as perhaps the earliest example of the Irish national tale, and of a shift in RMR 's literary focus from England to Ireland which coincided with her own move in...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

Both the title-page and the body of the work quote (unascribed) lines about social injustice spoken by Shakespeare 's King Lear (who has only just realised the rampant injustice of the world and of his...