William Shakespeare

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...

GHS worked with her husband on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner 's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready...

HCJ 's next novel, or pair of novellas, was given different titles for London and for New York publication, and was the first of her works to bear her name (as Mrs. C. Jenkin). The...

DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...

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...

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

AU published another in her series of works about her happy childhood on the family farm: Ambush of Young Days, with a quotation from a Shakespeare sonnet which her son had chosen.

LR published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer , Robert Henryson , and Shakespeare .

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

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...

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...

In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...

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 .

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.