William Shakespeare

The hospital poems in this volume present experiences of fear, pain, and alienation, with tirelessly exact observation and tireless compassion. The artist (that is, a typist concerned about the quality of her work) who speaks...

This is a satirical novel set on a US campus—though not, PHJ insists, embodying any identifiable place or people. The title, from Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream, suggests that the campus of the story...

The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare ; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a...

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...

The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with...

This is a work of fiction, not documentary. It relates the stories of four ex-prostitutes sympathetically, presenting a strong argument for social reform. According to scholar Katherine Binhammer , it is the most feminist among...

In this version of her life-story, ESG traces her fall back to her mother's refusal to allow her to marry her first love. She accords this refusal a passage of purple prose beginning Ah! wherefore...

Its plot is of the same type as that of Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew.William Shakespeare

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

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 /...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Ophelia: A Comedy, a rewriting of the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare 's Hamlet, mercilessly scrambles the plot, and has assimilated characters from other plays: Portia, Goneril, Lady Capulet, Juliet's Nurse, and Cleopatra's Charmian. Charmian...

All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists

The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Macbeth. A vivid, to-the-moment opening introduces a tale of revenge and restored inheritance. Add another fagot [sic] to the fire, and replenish the flask, said the aged Martin to...

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...