William Shakespeare

A quotation from Shakespeare 's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare and Germaine de Staël . The novel introduces its protagonist, William Milton, with generalisations about different types of people, especially those who refuse, out of pride or laziness, to compete for...

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...

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...

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

Many poems here are about the Welsh countryside, or are based on personal memories. Along with her foremothers, GC salutes other influences in LLŷr, titled from the Welsh name of the ancient British King...

Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny and the later Holland House, written in the person of the Ghost of La Bruyère. This, in a...

A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson (with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut...

Some of these early poems engage with familiar British texts. Her playful To Wed or Not to Wed is based on the most famous speech by Shakespeare 's Hamlet, and is not without a trace...

Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre .

MP 's Catherine is not (like Shakespeare's) Katherine Parr, but is the French-born widow of Henry V , who formed an illicit union in about 1429 with the Welsh prince Owen Tudor , which produced...

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...