William Shakespeare

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 .

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

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...

The title is quoted from Shakespeare 's Hamlet: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. The book is dedicated to R. L.

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...

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

H. D. wrote the first part of her tribute published four years later as By Avon River; this part, concerned with Shakespeare , is a poem entitled Good Frend (the opening words on the...

MJ has produced her own play, Where the Bee Sucks (titled from a speech of Ariel in the last act of Shakespeare 's The Tempest), and has worked on a radio soap opera set...

Longman published BH 's Beatrice, a Tale Founded on Facts, in an edition of 500 copies, with Shakespeare quotations on its title-page.

Contributing along with Gillian Clarke , Carol Ann Duffy , Jo Shapcott , Fiona Sampson , and many others, to a collection of poetic responses to Shakespeare four hundred years after his death, JK replied...

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

In April 1962 NM delivered the Macmillan Brown Lectures at the University of Canterbury, three lectures under the title The Three Cornered World: Shakespeare in the Theatre, covering the contributions to theatrical production...

FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

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.