William Shakespeare

In this work, CSplaces Shakespeare in his Warwickshire context . . . by presenting brief sketches of neighbors and relations whose lives touched his own. The subjects CS chooses are not generally known...

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ 's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

Kate Summerscale writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up...

This charming film approaches Indian-British relations through the motif of a touring theatre company which had its palmy days performing Shakespeare in the time of the British Raj, offering English cultural capital for the pride...

In providing readers with a guide to understanding Shakespeare 's plays, Smith takes a lively approach: at one point she warns her readers that Falstaff, it must be said, is not always fit company for...

NS opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. As in The Whicharts...

It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .

The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore and Shakespeare , and a review...

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...