William Shakespeare

The title-page quotes Shakespeare , who is then cited in the preface to justify the genre of historical fiction. HRM mentions her consultations of records and documents, and expresses her thanks to the gentlemen of...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Robert Browning

ER claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she...

JOH 's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer , she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero 's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...

Her title, supplied by Reggie Smith and adapted from Shakespeare 's witches in Macbeth, catches the swirl of contradictory rumours in Cairo about the battle of El Alamein, out in the desert....

From her account it is clear how she respects, even loves, the people she describes, but also how she is not one of them, but is marked off by tiny gradations of knowledge and privilege...

The story begins where many novels end: with the happiness of the eponymous heroine as she reaches the age of eighteen as a virtuous, well-educated heiress, married by her own choice to Count Harton. Her...

The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence took place during the play's workshop and development period. The play centres on a corporate takeover, which functions allegorically: a corporate raider...

MFCP 's title-page quotes Aulus Gellius . Her preface claims that she is merely editing an authentic manuscript, and that the preface is her only original contribution to the book. She also claims to have...

Each of the three volumes has a different quotation on its title-page: the last is Shakespeare 's defiant Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, maintaining that harsh weather is mild compared with human injustice.

Jemima here makes her first attempt to be a detective as a fifteen-year-old convent schoolgirl. While many of these pieces, like the sardonically titled Have a Nice Death, are indeed murder stories, On the...

The Address explains how EW set out with the lofty and pleasurable intention of aiding the poor in the Isle of Thanet, how the playhouse was all set to open to a capacity audience...

The title comes from Shakespeare 's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island...

She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother. Duffy dedicates the book to St Venus (a saint whose festival is...