William Shakespeare

Its title-page quotes from Akenside , but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare , several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross 's...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

EHD took the title for the collection (and for the first story) from a line in Shakespeare 's Henry IV: Were it good / To set the exact wealth of all our states /...

The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch , Shakespeare , Milton , and Germaine de Staël . FH

The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons instructs her niece on playing...

This time the novel's hidden template is Shakespeare 's The Tempest; IM also made use of her abortive engagement in 1945 to David Hicks . Among her usual large cast of characters...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

MEB 's Hostages to Fortune, also published in 1875, gives a more sustained view of the theatre milieu than did A Strange World. It tells the story of Herman Westray's struggle to succeed...

The titles, however, reveal that romance is to be countered with romance: The Generous Poverty, The Honourable Infidelity, The Fortunate Misfortune, The Double Rape, etc., sound like novels, and they employ...

The title-page (like several earlier ones of BH ) quotes Shakespeare . The novel opens in 1726, with Catherine the first holding court in Russia after Peter the Great 's death. She had come to...

AS says she began to write verse when I was introduced to Shakespeare and the English Romantics as a child, and was bewitched by the discovery of rhythm. She began at about twelve to...

The title is ironical, the houses concerned being damaged in the blitz, or such famous fictional dwellings as Ibsen 's Doll's House and Dunsinane Castle in Shakespeare 's Macbeth.

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

RP takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,...

The book is headed by a quotation from As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare : Cupid hath clapped him on the shoulder. It opens with Billie Briscoe, a music-hall comedian, hating himself, hating his profession, thinking...