title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
William Shakespeare | Masefield, John, 1878-1967 | en | | | | | 2008-11-15 |
Is Shakespeare Dead?
From my autobiography. | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | | 2000-12-01 |
Characteristics of Women
Moral, Poetical, and Historical | Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 | en | | | | Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women | 2008-07-31 |
Dark Lady of the Sonnets | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets; Fitton, Mary, 1578?-1641 | 1997-09-01 |
A Midnight Fantasy | Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters; Hamlet (Legendary character); Mate selection -- Fiction | 2007-11-06 |
Shakespeare and Music
With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries | Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall), 1867-1934 | en | | | | | 2006-10-31 |
Shakespearean Playhouses
A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration | Adams, Joseph Quincy, 1881-1946 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625; Theaters -- England -- London -- History | 2007-08-25 |
Visions and Revisions
A Book of Literary Devotions | Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 | en | | Rabelais -- Dante -- Shakespeare -- El Greco -- Milton -- Charles Lamb -- Dickens -- Goethe -- Matthew Arnold -- Shelley -- Keats -- Nietzsche -- Thomas Hardy -- Walter Pater -- Dostoievsky -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Walt Whitman. | | | 2008-10-16 |
Journeys to Bagdad | Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen), 1878-1934 | en | | Journeys to Bagdad -- The worst edition of Shakespeare -- The decline of night-caps -- Maps and rabbit-holes -- Tunes for spring -- Respectfully submitted, to a mournful air -- The chilly presence of hard-headed persons -- Hoopskirts and other lively matter -- On traveling -- Through the scuttle with the tinman. | | | 2006-12-12 |
What Is Man? and Other Essays | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | What is man? -- The death of Jean -- The turning-point of my life -- How to make history dates stick -- The memorable assassination -- A scrap of curious history -- Switzerland, the cradle of liberty -- At the Shrine of St. Wagner -- William Dean Howells -- English as she is taught -- A simplified alphabet -- As concerns interpreting the Deity -- Concerning tobacco -- The bee -- Taming the bicycle -- Is Shakespeare dead? | | | 2004-09-13 |
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style | Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 | en | Unaccented version in 7awae10.txt and 7awae10.zip, accented versions in 8awae10.txt and 8awae10.zip | Style -- Wordsworth -- Coleridge -- Charles Lamb -- Sir Thomas Browne -- "Love's labours lost -- "Measure for measure." -- Shakespeare's English kings -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Feuillet's "La morte." -- Postscript | | English literature -- History and criticism; Style, Literary | 2003-05-01 |
Complete Essays | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | As we were saying -- As we go -- Nine short essays -- Fashions in literature -- The American newspaper -- Certain diversities of American life -- The pilgrim, and the American of today [1892] -- Some causes of the prevailing disconcent -- The education of the negro -- The indeterminate sentence -- Literary copyright -- The relation of literature to life -- "Equality" -- What is your culture to me? -- Modern fiction -- Thoughts suggested by Mr.Froude's "Progress" -- England -- The novel and the common school -- The people for whom Shakespeare wrote. | | | 2004-10-11 |
Views and Reviews
Essays in appreciation: Literature | Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903 | en | | Dickens -- Thackeray -- Disraeli -- Dumas -- Meredith -- Byron -- Hugo -- Heine -- Arnold -- Homer and Theocritus -- Rabelais -- Shakespeare -- Sidney -- Tour neur -- Walton -- Herrick -- Locker -- Banville -- Dobson -- Berlioz -- George Eliot -- Borrow -- Balzac -- Labiche -- Champfleury -- Longfellow -- Tennyson -- Gordon Hake -- Landor -- Hood -- Lever -- Jefferies -- Gay -- Essays and essayists -- Boswell -- Congreve -- Arabian nights entertainments -- Richardson -- Tolstoï -- Fielding. | | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2007-08-08 |
My Literary Passions | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | The Bookcase at Home -- Goldsmith -- Cervantes -- Irving -- First Fiction and Drama -- Longfellow's "Spanish Student" -- Scott -- Lighter Fancies -- Pope -- Various Preferences -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Ossian -- Shakespeare -- Ik Marvel -- Dickens -- Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer -- Macaulay -- Critics and Reviews -- A Non-literary Episode -- Thackeray -- "Lazarillo De Tormes" -- Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel -- Tennyson -- Heine -- De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow -- George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine -- Charles Reade -- Dante -- Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio -- "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll" -- Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson -- Tourguenief, Auerbach -- Certain Preferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy -- Tolstoy | | | 2004-10-22 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |