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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clemence Dane | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore
and Shakespeare
, and a review... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | This charming film approaches Indian-British relations through the motif of a touring theatre company which had its palmy days performing Shakespeare
in the time of the British Raj, offering English cultural capital for the pride... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | LR
has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound
still believed that the movement... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Whateley Darwall | But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD
wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory
, and six unpublished poems. A... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin
and the philosophies of Carlyle
on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc
, and her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Noel Streatfeild | NS
opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | T. S. Eliot | His introduction defines the critic's business as to see literature steadily and to see it whole. This, he argues, involves preserving tradition Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen; Barnes and Noble. xv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Toulmin Smith | In providing readers with a guide to understanding Shakespeare
's plays, Smith takes a lively approach: at one point she warns her readers that Falstaff, it must be said, is not always fit company for... |
Timeline
1 November 1604: Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, written since...
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1 November 1604
Shakespeare
's tragedy Othello, written since 30 September of the previous year, was performed before James I
at Whitehall.
3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...
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3 May 1606
An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
After 3 May 1606: From allusions in Shakespeare's Macbeth,...
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After 3 May 1606
From allusions in Shakespeare
's Macbeth, it seems that this tragedy was completed after this date.
5 September 1607: The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon,...
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5 September 1607
The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon, heading for Asia but becalmed for a month off the coast of Sierra Leone, put on a performance of Shakespeare
's Hamlet (a play only five...
7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...
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7 October 1607
The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur
but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton
's answer to Shakespeare
's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register
.
26 November 1607: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear was registered...
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26 November 1607
Shakespeare
's tragedy King Lear was registered with the Stationers' Company
for publication in a quarto edition the following year.
20 May 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets were registered with...
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20 May 1609
Shakespeare
's Sonnets were registered with the Stationers' Company
; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.
20 April 1611: Simon Forman's diary describes the earliest...
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20 April 1611
Simon Forman
's diary describes the earliest recorded performance of Shakespeare
's Macbeth, which was probably completed soon after early May 1606.
Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...
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Before 29 June 1613
Henry VIII, by Shakespeare
(probably with the collaboration of Fletcher
), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre
.
8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...
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8 November 1623
Shakespeare
's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company
.
1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...
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1633
Dramatist John Ford
published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
15 April 1644: The Globe Theatre in London, once the home...
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15 April 1644
The Globe Theatre
in London, once the home of Shakespeare
's company, was demolished as part of the ongoing parliamentarian campaign against the theatres.
August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...
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August 1667
John Dryden
published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.
7 November 1670: The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's...
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7 November 1670
The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare
's The Tempest by John Dryden
and the late Sir William Davenant
was first staged.
12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...
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12 December 1677
John Dryden
's tragedyAll for Love; or, The World Well Lost (a blank-verse re-writing of Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra) received its first known (perhaps not its first) performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
.
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