William Shakespeare

NJ published a novel entitled Barren Metal (a title taken from a speech of Antonio in Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice).

MB published To Bed at Noon, the last crime novel she wrote as Joseph Shearing.

Invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, GC took off from Let me not to the marriage of true minds for a poem on enduring love with examples from the animal kingdom: swallows homing and...

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.

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...

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...

PB published an autobiographical novel about the writer's metier, Noble in Reason (whose title quotes from one of Hamlet 's soliloquies).

Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...

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.

That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.

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

PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).

ES published her first novel, The Reproof of Chance (whose title comes from a speech by Nestor in Shakespeare 's Troilus and Cressida).

The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In...