William Shakespeare

EI published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare heading the list.

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.

IDH 's A New Othello, A Novel ran as a serial in London Society, before appearing in three volumes in 1890. She radically alters and complicates the plot of Shakespeare 's play.

For the Jemima Shore mystery Political DeathAF supplied a submerged text in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, which is being produced as part of the action of the novel.

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.

In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...

In 2008 AQA , the largest examination board in Britain, decided to ban a poem by CAD called Education for Leisure, because teachers feared it might encourage violent crime. The poem is a dramatic...

On Shakespeare 's presumed three hundredth birthday, a Working Men's Shakspeare [sic] Celebration was held, at which Henry Marston spoke a Tercentenary Ode written for the occasion by EC .

The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

Dear Brutus, another fantasy play by SJMB , opened at Wyndham's Theatre . Its title quotation, from Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, says that men themselves, not fate, are to blame for their shortcomings.

The title draws on Shakespeare 's exiled duke in As You Like It, who says retirement in the forest will supply books in the running brooks. (II. i, 17) The collection deals partly with...

CS published Shakespeare 's Warwickshire Contemporaries, a collection of biographies which she had written and had already printed separately.

At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...