William Shakespeare

GG 's doctoral thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare 's Early Comedies, set out to demonstrate that the lovers' relationships portrayed in these stylised plays are deeply imagined, not merely conventional.

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.

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.

CD published A Modern Iago, A Novel in two volumes (whose very title constitutes an allusion to Shakespeare , her second in a novel title).

When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses. Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...

In Your Life as a WaveRP , invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, built on Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore in two sections based on the successive movement: incoming...

From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...

Her most most notable illustrations were done between 1790 and 1806 for a 5-volume edition of Shakespeare 's history plays, extant at Althorp in Northamptonshire.

In the Advertisement prefacing her work, MB professes that this is at best but a feeble attempt to illustrate a favourite subject. Its metre is described in the ODNB as accomplished but slavishly Shakespearian

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...

JW published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean plot. She dedicated it to the...

The title comes from a Shakespeare an sonnet where the speaker says his nature is subdued/ To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. In his foreword WHA expresses resigned regret that poets make...

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 .

This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...

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...