William Shakespeare

The Prince of Morocco is an extraordinary fantasy whose implications are hard to fathom. The man who lost his chance of marriage to Shakespeare 's Portia by choosing the golden casket is here only nicknamed...

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...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...

This novel is a comedy of manners set in London in springtime, the start of the social season. Critic Charles Burkhart suggests that the title alludes to Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night; it also, paradoxically...

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...

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....

But as in her previous novel, MS turns aside from a happy ending which is already within her reach. Ulrich has an affair with Viria, who gives him for Agnes what she claims is a...

AP quotes Pope on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare , Thomson , Savage , and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is...

The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch , Shakespeare , Milton , and Germaine de Staël . FH

Again set in Florence, this play tells the tragic story of orphaned siblings, Laura Amidei and her older brother Count Amidei. They are joined together by an intense bond, felt most strongly by the...

Each of the three volumes has a different quotation on its title-page: the last is Shakespeare 's defiant Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, maintaining that harsh weather is mild compared with human injustice.

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 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...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

The Address explains how EW set out with the lofty and pleasurable intention of aiding the poor in the Isle of Thanet, how the playhouse was all set to open to a capacity audience...