William Shakespeare

Mary addressed herself particularly to female readers, because she knew that access to Shakespeare in the original was likely to be harder for girls than for boys. Sarah Burton argues that she had a hidden...

The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism that includes Mary Singleton and a further six virgins, deplore the displacement of Shakespeare 's original King Lear by Nahum Tate

JP divides this novel into three parts, one for each woman. Much of the section on Catherine of Valois (whom many readers would remember as a charming young woman being wooed in broken French at...

Randall Martin notes how Dowriche's use of Gentillet/Patrick brings her work into the anti-Machiavel tradition. Her Machiavel is a female one: Catherine de Medici (which was not unusual). Her Catherine speaks in gendered terms when...

This was one of the earliest novels of sensibility, and was probably influenced by Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph. Its sentimental content, however, co-exists both with comment on politics and with a coherent plot...

Critic Dianne Chisholm calls this book an autobiographical fiction in the genre of case history narrative, and argues that it employs the discourse of hysteria Finding no semiotic system that represents her experience, no...

Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

She insists that even Jane Austen . . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. She posits an underlying double...

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.

These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'...

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...

TH 's earliest poems, written in London, reflect the influence of Shakespeare and George Meredith on one hand, and on the other a fierce and individual concern with words, which he pushes to...