William Shakespeare

Her dedicatee was a bookstore owner in Nashville, Tennessee, where he involved himself in the Civil Rights movement in 1960. (His son Richard is known as a writer). RT uses three epigraphs: from St John of the Cross

As each book in this series relates to one of Shakespeare 's plays, this one relates to Pericles, and the artist that it relates to is Tacita Dean, who is famous for her...

As often, Murdoch has a canonical text in mind for reworking: in this deeply unsettling novel it is Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing. (One scene also recalls the book of Job.) But...

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

The title embraces controversy and makes something witty of her habitual modesty. In her extended argument against the value of creative writing classes, EW maintains that good writers must be self-taught and that the conditions...

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 title refers primarily to a legend about a wand of palm (the country name for willow) which brings good luck if it is found on Palm Sunday (when, traditionally, English people carried branches of...

As the work opens, Cordelia, slight of body, determined of will, savvy of mind (who is to reappear later in another book, The Skull Beneath the Skin), is running a seedy detective agency...

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

Some of these early poems engage with familiar British texts. Her playful To Wed or Not to Wed is based on the most famous speech by Shakespeare 's Hamlet, and is not without a trace...

The novel opens with an epigraph from a Shakespeare sonnet.

The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...

Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's...