William Shakespeare

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...

Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis would address non-human beings as brothers. JK writes...

The first half of the story is set in an imaginary western Irish village called Cloonoila, a strange but utterly convincing hybrid of the idyllic and the stultifyingly parochial. The second half is set in...

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...

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.

Brave New World (titled from the words of Shakespeare 's Miranda on her first sight of human social community) is in some ways remarkably prescient, in its forecast of extra-uterine pregnancy and a universal drug...

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

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...

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...

The title comes from Shakespeare 's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island...

Characteristics of Women is the first thorough treatment of Shakespeare 's oeuvre from a woman-centred perspective, notwithstanding its opening assertion that women in general are intellectually inferior to men. As critic Christy Desmet observes,...

As often, Murdoch has a canonical text in mind for reworking: in this deeply unsettling novel it is Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing. (One scene also recalls the book of Job.) But...

PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...

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...