William Shakespeare

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 title of this column implied that like Shakespeare 's Autolycus it would offer unconsidered trifles, some of them purloined. Its authoring by a different woman on each day of the week ended in...

For the Jemima Shore mystery Political DeathAF supplied a submerged text in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, which is being produced as part of the action of the novel.

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...

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...

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...

FET published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White.

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...

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.

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...

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...

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.

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.