William Shakespeare

The Inheritance opens with what sounds like an allusion to Jane Austen : It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...

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...

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...

The title is a phrase applied to Shakespeare 's Perdita in The Winter's Tale. This book, like others by DG , looks at relations between English and middle European characters.

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...