William Shakespeare

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of...

Its plot is of the same type as that of Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew.William Shakespeare

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...

The book is simple and singular in plot and sparse in characters compared with CMW 's first, but here too a central character is pregnant through most of the action. Here too literary references come...

This collection represents a significant departure from AW 's earlier work in its adoption of literary conventions. Peopled with jesters, knights, witches, and shepherdesses, the poems in this volume incorporate historical (Anglo-Saxon and Elizabethan), mythological...

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...

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...

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,...

The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence took place during the play's workshop and development period. The play centres on a corporate takeover, which functions allegorically: a corporate raider...

For readers familiar with the Shakespeare comedy (as Jemima certainly is), parallels are discernible between the personages and situations on stage and those of the actual world—parallels which are unsettling rather than helpful for Jemima...

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...

CG calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar , or George Colman school. Her prologue makes the point that the rapidity of modern life, symbolised by the railway, leaves no time...

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.