William Shakespeare

All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists

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...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare . This novel follows, with serious concern as well as satirical humour, the career choices made by the sons of the Cleavland family. Their father favours science and agriculture, which he...

DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...

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.

The 1809 title-page quotes Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice. In 1811 this place is taken by lines from Henry VI Part III, in which the future Richard III avows his villainy and...

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...

Jemima here makes her first attempt to be a detective as a fifteen-year-old convent schoolgirl. While many of these pieces, like the sardonically titled Have a Nice Death, are indeed murder stories, On the...

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...

Its plot is of the same type as that of Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew.William Shakespeare

She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother. Duffy dedicates the book to St Venus (a saint whose festival is...

Though not fond of other forms of exercise, she became a fearless rider and an excellent whip—that is, a driver of horses in harness. She was a talented amateur actress, most memorable...