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|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In... |
| Textual Production | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
's A New Othello, A Novel ran as a serial in London Society, before appearing in three volumes in 1890. She radically alters and complicates the plot of Shakespeare
's play. |
| Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published an autobiographical novel about the writer's metier, Noble in Reason (whose title quotes from one of Hamlet
's soliloquies). Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 28 |
| Textual Production | Mary Charlton | Its title-page (as well as bearing a quotation from Shakespeare
) mentions several of her earlier works. |
| Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | Its title comes from Shakespeare
's As You Like It, whose heroine, Rosalind, admonishes the haughty Phoebe to go down on her knees and thank heaven,fasting, for a good man's love. |
| Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's From the Vasty Deep is a thriller titled from the boast of Shakespeare
's Glendower about his power to summon spirits, and published by November the same year. It takes for its protagonist... |
| Textual Production | Marjorie Bowen | That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen
's Plays of Shakespeare
& Chapman
in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
did not produce any more volumes for several years, during which her work as a freelance research assistant perhaps occupied her fully. Finally, in 1879, she issued a new edition of Clement Mansfield Ingleby |
| Textual Production | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White. The title is quoted from an incantatory lyric which is better remembered than its provenance. It occurs in Sir William Davenant
's version of... |
| Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | The publishers were Grant and Griffith
, successors to John Harris
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 39 |
| Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | |
| Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
's doctoral thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare
's Early Comedies, set out to demonstrate that the lovers' relationships portrayed in these stylised plays are deeply imagined, not merely conventional. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books. 117 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare
heading the list. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 16 (1809): 110 Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 35 |
| Textual Production | Louise Page | LP
's Like to Live, also 1991, is set during the invisible years which Hermione, the middle-aged, falsely accused queen of Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale, spends hidden and believed dead. Like to... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | 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. Behrendt, Stephen C., and George Holmes, editors. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period”. Alexander Street Press. |
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June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...
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June 1911
Ellen Terry
lectured on the topic of Shakespeare
's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players
.
1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...
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1913
Caroline Spurgeon
became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College
.
15 February 1913: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened with...
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15 February 1913
December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...
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December 1927
23 April 1932: On the traditional date of Shakespeare's...
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23 April 1932
On the traditional date of Shakespeare
's birthday, the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
in Stratford upon Avon opened with a performance of Henry IV, parts I and II.
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
1944: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in...
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1944
Laurence Olivier
directed and starred in the film Henry V, making the most of the English patriotic feeling in Shakespeare
's original play.
1946: At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born...
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1946
At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born Catherine Gaskin
(now resident in Australia) published her first novel, This Other Eden (titled from a famous speech about England spoken by Shakespeare
's John of Gaunt).
April 1946: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford...
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April 1946
The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
, Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson
with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
produced by Peter Brook
.
1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, released the previous...
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1949
Laurence Olivier
's Hamlet,William Shakespeare
released the previous year, became the first British film to win the Oscar for best film.
1951: Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established...
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1951
Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll
established the Shakespeare Institute
; it is part of Birmingham University
and is housed in Mason Croft at Stratford, formerly the home of novelist Marie Corelli
.
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...
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10 May 1951
Actress Vivien Leigh
and actor Laurence Olivier
began the season at St James's Theatre
, London, alternately playing Shaw
's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
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December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
: Peter Brook directed at Stratford upon Avon...
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Spring1970
Peter Brook
directed at Stratford upon Avon a production of Shakespeare
's Midsummer Night's Dream which redefined the possibilities of theatre.
23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...
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23 April 1975
A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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