William Shakespeare

The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...

The title comes from Mercutio's speech about the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet; MK quotes the opening of this speech on her title-page.

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

The title-page quotes Pope and Staël . The novel's opening sounds like a tale of mysterious origins, but without the mystery. A quotation from Shakespeare 's Tempest—Prospero telling Miranda the story of her past—introduces...

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...

A quotation from Shakespeare 's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare and Germaine de Staël . The novel introduces its protagonist, William Milton, with generalisations about different types of people, especially those who refuse, out of pride or laziness, to compete for...

These poems of love and separation have echoes of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning .Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.) opens on the last letter which Thomas wrote to Farjeon from the...

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,...

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...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

Her address to her husband rejoices that he has never bidden her to stop writing and work (that is do needlework) instead. In this connection she quotes from Lord Denny 's attempt to silence Lady Mary Wroth

The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. The actual woman behind the story was Rebecca Berry, later Elton . The coat of arms of her...