William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Features Shena Mackay
The selection ranges from Shakespeare to Angus Wilson , from the Bible to Liz Lochhead .
Textual Features Ngaio Marsh
This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a...
Textual Features Muriel Jaeger
In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer.
Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell, 1965.
118
Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...
Textual Features Frances Arabella Rowden
An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820)
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829.
1829, iv
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
Textual Features Samuel Johnson
This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...
Textual Features E. Nesbit
EN does not come clean here about the complicated sexual and genealogical relationships in her family, but she gives a sensitive account of her own development and attitudes as a writer. It is here that...
Textual Features Hélène Cixous
As she was preparing to stage La Prise de l'école de Madhubai in 1984, she met Ariane Mnouchkine , the director of the experimental Théâtre du Soleil , who was known for her innovation in...
Textual Features Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols.
2: 45-8
it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Textual Features Barbara Cartland
Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams...
Textual Features Anne Manning
This book makes some pretence of being an early text, though the way that Nicholas Moldwarp is named and introduced suggests the superior eye of posterity. Manning once again imitates not only early spelling, but...
Textual Features Laetitia Pilkington
Whereas the ballad-opera (based on Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew) was misogynist, as its title suggests, LP 's prologue was vehemently pro-woman.
Textual Features Kathleen Nott
Here KN writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively),
Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953.
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Textual Features Ali Smith
The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne...
Textual Features Frances Brooke
The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xiv
that includes Mary Singleton and a further six virgins,
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xiv
deplore the displacement of Shakespeare 's original King Lear by Nahum Tate
Textual Features Eva Figes
This text is divided into short, discrete paragraphs which seem often unconnected with each other. The first one reads Oh, my lost ones.
Figes, Eva. Ghosts. Hamish Hamilton, 1988.
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The protagonist and speaker has some difficulty placing herself in time...

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