William Shakespeare

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...

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...

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

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...

James Boswell drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare Illustrated; this edition was never completed.

ENB dedicated this work, with permission, to the Duke of York ; it had more than a hundred subscribers, including such Tory grandees as Henry Addington , the current Prime Minister. It does not read...

JM published (and titled from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary, which takes her through a year of commentary on herself and the world around her.

Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...

TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.

She collaborated with her old friend the actor Jonathan Elsom on a one-man vehicle for him entitled Sweet Mr. Shakespeare, incorporating a mixture of biography, anecdotes, sonnets and speeches.

ES published her first novel, The Reproof of Chance (whose title comes from a speech by Nestor in Shakespeare 's Troilus and Cressida).

The title of this column implied that like Shakespeare 's Autolycus it would offer unconsidered trifles, some of them purloined. Its authoring by a different woman on each day of the week ended in...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an...