William Shakespeare

MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...

The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...

The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...

RMR published through the Minerva Press another novel, Nocturnal Visit, A Tale; Shakespeare is quoted on the title-page.

PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).

MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .

She did not show the poems to Browning until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...

The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.

This has her preface replying to hostile criticism of her for querulous egotism, and for renewing her criticisms of the Smith trustees. She also admits, this time, her economic motive. The number of...

Dear Brutus, another fantasy play by SJMB , opened at Wyndham's Theatre . Its title quotation, from Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, says that men themselves, not fate, are to blame for their shortcomings.

This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...

Anne Bradby (later AR ) produced, on commission from Oxford University Press , her first anthology: a World's Classics selection of Shakespeare criticism since the end of the First World War.

The title-page reads: The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, Investigated by Lady Wallace. An epigraph quotes Shakespeare 's Othello: Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice. She...

In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...

The title of PW 's Miss Silver mystery The Traveller Returns (almost quoting from Shakespeare 's Hamlet) is a double bluff: this is a novel about an apparent return from the dead.