William Shakespeare

LP 's Like to Live, also 1991, is set during the invisible years which Hermione, the middle-aged, falsely accused queen of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale, spends hidden and believed dead. Like to...

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

When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses. Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...

In the Advertisement prefacing her work, MB professes that this is at best but a feeble attempt to illustrate a favourite subject. Its metre is described in the ODNB as accomplished but slavishly Shakespearian

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...

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...

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 .

SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

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...

Whereas the ballad-opera (based on Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew) was misogynist, as its title suggests, LP 's prologue was vehemently pro-woman.

Attached to Septimus is a different cluster of characters that includes his anxious young Italian wife and his doctors, the bluff Dr Holmes, who tells him to pull himself together, and the dogmatic and unfeeling...

This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson