William Shakespeare

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

Fox was also in attendance at CB 's lecture on Female Characters in our Literature, where the lecturer apparently observed that in Shakespeare the character is everything, often the circumstances in the different plays...

PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...

Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer and Shakespeare , stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her...

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...

It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka

Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

Here CS attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare . She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean...

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 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 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...

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...