William Shakespeare

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

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...

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...

Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...

It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer and Shakespeare onwards.

NM 's final detective novel was posthumously published. The title, Light Thickens, is quoted from a foreboding speech in Shakespeare 's Macbeth and the plot revolves around a production of that play, which is...

ME 's journals, kept from her youth onwards, often served to write what I want to get rid of. In the mid and later 1930s they break out periodically in a passionate fury of...

The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare 's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson included six sonnets from...

AC 's play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London: adapted from the title story in her Three Blind Mice, and Other Stories, 1948. It was still playing in 2014, as...

In a counterblast to Voltaire , EM published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear.

CS published Burbage and Shakespeare 's Stage, a biography of James Burbage.

MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...

The English print-run of the Echegaray translation was 400 copies. Lynch's solid, 30-page introduction, in part reprinted from the Contemporary Review, makes no attempt at boosting her subject. She compares Echegaray in his various...