William Shakespeare

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...

The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay 's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. It did, however, receive several positive...

Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

MC contributed a six-page letter to a book entitled The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, which illustrates with engravings the famous seven ages passage of As You Like It.

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...

DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...

At their fifth meeting he asked her to marry him. She was not in love. She agonised about her love for Bevil; she wrote with tears to consult Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . He responded...

According to Linden Peach , the writings of Bertolt Brecht and Mikhail Bakhtin influenced AC 's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went...

The action in the novel takes place over one day, in which the two elderly actresses Dora and Nora Chance (who are twin sisters) are celebrating their seventy-fifth birthday. They share their birthdate with their...

Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams...

At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...

Her address to her husband rejoices that he has never bidden her to stop writing and work (that is do needlework) instead. In this connection she quotes from Lord Denny 's attempt to silence Lady Mary Wroth

The novel takes place in the ugly town of Brombridge, whose industrial character is mentioned, but only fleetingly explored. Sellcuts', the town's music hall, burns down in mysterious circumstances. The manager, the dashing Paul...

CC , at Henry Fielding 's Haymarket Theatre , appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay ), Falstaff (Shakespeare ), George Barnwell (George Lillo ), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe ).