D H Lawrence - The Fight For Barbara: “It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. ”D.H. Lawrence
D H Lawrence - The Merry-Go-Round: “I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”D.H. Lawrence
D H Lawrence - The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd: "I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."D.H. Lawrence
D H Lawrence - The Daughter-In-Law: "Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."D.H. Lawrence
She Would if She Could: "When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion."George Etherege
The Welsh Opera: "Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not"Henry Fielding
The Comedy Named the Several Wits: 'But a wild wit in every ditch doth flow, And with the mudde doth soul, and filthy grow''Margaret Cavendish
Love's Adventures - Part I: 'For shame take courage, and be not afraid of a Woman''Margaret Cavendish
Love's Triumph: 'Oh! How her Jealousie with Rage now burns! Love and Ambition torture her by turns''Edward Cooke
Tumble-Down Dick: “Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil”Henry Fielding
Miss Lucy in Town: “A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart”Henry Fielding
The Battle of Alcazar: 'Presents himself, with naked sword in hand Accompanied, As now you may behold With Devils coated in the shapes of men''George Peele
The Sociable Companions: 'For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance'Margaret Cavendish
The Apocriphal Ladies: 'As fear frights tears from the Eyes, so grief doth send them forth''Margaret Cavendish
Nature's Three Daughters: Part I: 'The Ladies are admired, praised, adored, worshiped; all other women are despised''Margaret Cavendish
The Bridals: 'Some Women have modest countenances and natures all their life-time''Margaret Cavendish
Nature's Three Daughters: Part II: 'The Ladies are admired, praised, adored, worshiped; all other women are despised''Margaret Cavendish
The Comical Hash: 'As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred''Margaret Cavendish
The History of Orlando Furioso: 'Victorious princes, summon'd to appear, Within the continent of Africa''Robert Greene – playwright
The Widow's Tears: 'She be my guide, and hers the praise of these, My worthy undertakings''George Chapman
Agamemnon: 'The sun shrinks from my face. I must away, That so he may bring back the light of day''Seneca
Hercules Furens: 'And fates I conquered; and in scorn of death I have come back again. What else remains?''Seneca5
The Dutch Courtezan: 'I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works''John Marston
The Honourable History of Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay: 'Why looks my lord like to a troubled sky, When Heaven's bright shine is shadowed with a fog?''Robert Greene – playwright
The Scottish History of James the Fourth: Why, angry Scot, I visit thee for love; then what moves thee to wrath?Robert Greene – playwright
Campaspe: 'Fortune, thou didst never yet deceive virtue, because virtue never yet did trust fortune''John Lyly
The Arraignment of Paris: 'And deadly rivers of th' infernal Jove, Where bloodless ghosts in pains of endless date, Fill ruthless ears with never-ceasing cries''George Peele
David and Bethsabe: 'Of Israel's sweetest singer now I sing, His holy style and happy victories''George Peele
Midas: 'It is gold, Bacchus, that Midas desireth, let everything that Midas toucheth be turned to gold''John Lyly3
The Old Wive’s Tale: 'For your further entertainment, it shall be as it may be, so and so''George Peele
The Poetry of Robert Greene: 'He is dead, at this her sorowes were so sore: And so she wept that she could speake no more''Robert Greene2
Thyestes: 'Be pitchy black the night, and let the day Fall fainting from the heavens and be no more''Seneca
Lover's Vows: Let her from British hearts no peril fear but, as a stranger, find a welcome here''Mrs Inchbald
Such Things Are: 'How different does his Lordship appear to me, to me he is all politesse''Mrs Inchbald
The Wedding Day: 'And aims, in all she dares to write, To make her Wedding Day—a merry night''Mrs Inchbald
The Widow's Vow: 'First on your safety think! Now belles appear by ample bulwarks guarded, front and rear''Mrs Inchbald
Andria (The Girl from Andros): 'I am human and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me''Terence
Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law): 'I am human and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me''Terence
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor): 'I am human and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me''Terence
Phormio (The Scheming Parasite): 'I am human and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me''Terence