William Shakespeare

These poems of love and separation have echoes of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning .Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.) opens on the last letter which Thomas wrote to Farjeon from the...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare on the marriage of true minds. This novel explores various motives for marriage and traces the experience of a group of married couples. It begins with the five Miss Phipson sisters...

The epigraph is a statement about truth from Shakespeare 's Henry IV Part One. The protagonist of this novel, Sarah Barcant, was born in Smitsrivier, a dusty little South African town dominated by its...

This title-page quotes from William Falconer and the Latin poet Martial . The novel opens on the usually flighty Philippa Egerton contemplating her imminent marriage to Sir Thomas Clervaux, whose chief talent is for dancing...

Her address to her husband rejoices that he has never bidden her to stop writing and work (that is do needlework) instead. In this connection she quotes from Lord Denny 's attempt to silence Lady Mary Wroth

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...

Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg...

The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's...

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 title-page quotes from Shakespeare : lines from Othello and Macbeth, about prison and murder. The heroine, Ethelinde, grows up in a poor cottage (among woods and pastures, close by the ruined priory in...

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...

In the opening scene a woman psychiatrist, Dr Hildegard Wolf, is consulted by a man claiming to be the famously missing Lord Lucan .

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, Oh serpent heart . . . . Though slightly schematic in plan, the novel features lively and winning pictures of family life. The marriages made by...

A different third-person narrator replaces the somewhat pompous gentleman of An Antidote. The book's subect is the relations between the two Placid women, mother and daughter, and the squire's family, the Bustles (who are...