William Shakespeare

After the Second World War, and Influenced by her varied studies (of Shakespeare , Mallarmé , Colette , and of Persia) as well as by her perceptions of contemporary European warfare, Bryher wrote...

The title poem explains the implications of the title: I was set here / To watch. So I do, / And report, in cipher, to headquarters, / Which is an hypothesis. Hospital patients re-appear:...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Ophelia: A Comedy, a rewriting of the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare 's Hamlet, mercilessly scrambles the plot, and has assimilated characters from other plays: Portia, Goneril, Lady Capulet, Juliet's Nurse, and Cleopatra's Charmian. Charmian...

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...

In his absence Camilla recovers, and three years later marries another rake, Sir Lusignan Dellbury; when his former adoration is cooled by marriage, she turns to her children for emotional satisfaction. He insists on her...

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...

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...

Fire, addressed to Yeats and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare (Does not our life consist of the four elements?), is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...

The title is a near-quotation from Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream—the working man who is about to play the role of the lion promises not to frighten the ladies in the audience: I...

The satiric Our Side of the Question, dedicated to the Sarcastic Bachelors' Society counters misogynistic views of matrimony with reference to Shakespeare 's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. JR notes wryly that...

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...

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...

Our Lady of the Broken Heart, the garden play mentioned in the volume title, is set in a public Italian garden during the seventeenth century, or any time. In the dedication, AMFR recalls...