William Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

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...

The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many...

She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...

MF titled her single book of poetry God's a Good Man, an assertion made by Shakespeare 's Dogberry which she finds absurd but moving.

RR 's To Fear a Painted Devil, her second published novel and the first of her psychological thrillers, adapted for its title a line from Shakespeare 's Macbeth.

A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...

For O, these Men, these Men!, a non-comic novel, AT chose a title quotation from Shakespeare 's Othello, in which a wife (Emilia) makes light of a marital situation (with her husband Iago)...

The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In...

CS 's critical sally later known as The Bacon -Shakspere Question Answered first appeared under the briefer and less familiar title of The Bacon-Shakspere Question.

Its title-page (as well as bearing a quotation from Shakespeare ) mentions several of her earlier works.

Its title comes from Shakespeare 's As You Like It, whose heroine, Rosalind, admonishes the haughty Phoebe to go down on her knees and thank heaven,fasting, for a good man's love.

GBS published another memoir volume, Benefits Forgot (quoted from Shakespeare 's As You Like It), which she says she strung on the theme of gratitude.