William Shakespeare

The canonical name of Shakespeare was sufficient warrant to offer children stories which did not reliably reward virtue and punish vice, or make clear what action ought to be taken in response to events on...

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...

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...

EJS is wary of the transformations of poetry: this apparition / A rainbow truth altering for every eye. The real King Richard II , who died in obscurity after a life of ruin and negation...

Turning from history to literature, EPL notes that whereas in life women are assumed to be weak, in literature they are depicted as and admired for being strong, wilful, and assertive. The only exception she...

H. D. published By Avon River: the Avon is the one flowing through Stratford, and the book celebrates the Shakespeare an moment in literature.

MBL 's From the Vasty Deep is a thriller titled from the boast of Shakespeare 's Glendower about his power to summon spirits, and published by November the same year. It takes for its protagonist...

AJV was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden 's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller 's Batheaston Vase...

That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.

It was published by J. Harris , with a quotation from Shakespeare on the title-page, and proved one of BH 's most successful titles, in France and the USA as well as in England.

The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They...

GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

GHS worked with her husband on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner 's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready...