William Shakespeare

She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare 's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright . In the title...

TCP placed on the title-page of her Apology a quotation from Nicholas Rowe 's The Fair Penitent, the period's most famous treatment of a woman who is deserving although fallen. She later emphasises her...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

Southampton turns out to be too bashful to speak in parliament, and also too weak to withstand the mockery of rakish friends for his fidelity to his wife. He suffers agony of conscience over his...

At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath 's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright.

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...

Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God...

Janice Thaddeus discusses the prerogative MD assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch 's Lives, who was forgiven...

RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...

The title-page quotes James Beattie and Shakespeare . For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars . FID 's preface declares her intention of reporting the...

The Shakespeare allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on...

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde , who...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

Valisneria tells the story of a young couple who decide, since they have abounding wealth and happiness in each other, they will resign the company of all other society. After a time however, the two...