William Shakespeare

The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...

The action, which takes place in a magic forest, fantastically enables second chances which nevertheless fail to be better exploited than the first choices were. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls this the most...

Attached to Septimus is a different cluster of characters that includes his anxious young Italian wife and his doctors, the bluff Dr Holmes, who tells him to pull himself together, and the dogmatic and unfeeling...

Hatchways is one of ES 's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives....

MD centred her story on a woman whose life is drifting, who has plenty of leisure but no direction. The idea came to her when she herself was bustling around London on her short visits...

KFP dreamed of success as a playwright as well as an actress at least from the year 1911. In February 1918 she was working on a play, apparently about divorce, to be entitled Broken...

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).

ES published her first novel, The Reproof of Chance (whose title comes from a speech by Nestor in Shakespeare 's Troilus and Cressida).

Her most most notable illustrations were done between 1790 and 1806 for a 5-volume edition of Shakespeare 's history plays, extant at Althorp in Northamptonshire.

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translatingShakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

AC 's occasional writings include a serious self-examination in rhythmical prose entitled The Character of Mrs C—n by Herself, which begins: Born with too much sensibility to enjoy ease, / With high ideas of...

MD 's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland , author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...

This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell and John Hingeston . The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190...

After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an...

The publishers were Grant and Griffith , successors to John Harris . Again the title-page quotes Shakespeare . Again BH prophesied wrongly that this would be her last book (because of age and infirmity)...