William Shakespeare

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...

Carl Van Vechten edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce, Eliot, and...

EAR published Summer's Lease, a novel whose epigraph comes from the Shakespeare sonnet (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) which contains the words of its title.

TH's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, as the author of Desperate Remedies, was in a different style: a love-story whose village setting is pastorally depicted, as the title from Shakespeare suggests.

After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray nonetheless encouraged EW to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW sketched...

PHJ issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean sonnet.

Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett. In the year before...

AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.

She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare's famously irresolute hero, and...

CS published Shakespeare's Family, which is largely a record of the poet's ancestors and descendants.

MCC and her husband finished work on their annotated Shakespeare; two days later they began on The Shakespeare Key.

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 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.

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...

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...