McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare
's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman
and Daniel Robinson
included six sonnets from... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The earlier Adelaide and Antonine, whose lovers take refuge from the French Revolution in England, is balanced by Agnes, or The Wanderer, whose protagonist (another Revolution victim) is ordered by her doomed husband... |
| Literary Setting | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's novel is set in eleventh-century Scotland, a couple of generations after the time of Shakespeare
's Macbeth. Donalda, also known as the Flower of Yarrow, suspects that the mystery of her... |
| Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had... |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson
in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
on the marriage of true minds. This novel explores various motives for marriage and traces the experience of a group of married couples. It begins with the five Miss Phipson sisters... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
| Education | Ellen Wood | She was educated at home under the influence of a father interested in music and classical scholarship. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | JW
published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean
plot. She dedicated it to the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | One of JSW
's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard
, a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer
... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler
, an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare |
| Textual Production | Ethel Wilson | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel Wilson | The title embraces controversy and makes something witty of her habitual modesty. In her extended argument against the value of creative writing classes, EW
maintains that good writers must be self-taught and that the conditions... |
Timeline
25 October 1415: Henry V's victory over the French at Agincourt...
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25 October 1415
Henry V
's victory over the French at Agincourt initiated the peak period of English rule over France.
3 March 1592: The first part of William Shakespeare's Henry...
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3 March 1592
The first part of William Shakespeare
's Henry VI (not, however, the first part to be written) probably had its opening performance.
18 April 1593: Shakespeare's first published work, the narrative...
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18 April 1593
Shakespeare
's first published work, the narrative poemVenus and Adonis, was registered with the Stationers' Company
; the only recorded copy is in the Bodleian Library
.
2 May 1594: The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare,...
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2 May 1594
The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare
, was entered in the Stationers' Register.
1597: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, probably...
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1597
Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet, probably written in 1594-5, was both staged and published.
22 July 1598: Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice...
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22 July 1598
Shakespeare
's comedyThe Merchant of Venice was entered in the Stationers' Register
by the printer named James Roberts.
September 1598: Ben Jonson's earliest well-known comedy,...
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September 1598
Ben Jonson
's earliest well-known comedy, Every Man in His Humour, was first performed, with a cast that included Richard Burbage
and William Shakespeare
.
: Shakespeare probably composed his Roman history...
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Spring1599
Shakespeare
probably composed his Roman historyplayJulius Caesar.
Spring 1599: As soon as the danger of frost was over,...
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Spring 1599
As soon as the danger of frost was over, the Globe Theatre
was built,or re-built, in Southwark, south of the river in London, as a home for Shakespeare
's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men
.
: William Jaggard published The Passionate...
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Summer1599
William Jaggard
published The Passionate Pilgrime, a pirated miscellany including poetry by Marlowe
, Shakespeare
, and others; the title-page ascription to Shakespeare is unjustified.
4 August 1600: Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It was entered...
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4 August 1600
Shakespeare
's comedy As You Like It was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it remained unpublished until 1623.
23 August 1600: William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about...
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23 August 1600
William Shakespeare
's comedy Much Ado about Nothing, probably written between summer 1598 and spring 1599, was licensed with the Stationers' Company
; it was printed this year.
7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...
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7 February 1601
Followers of the Earl of Essex
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
26 July 1602: Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet was entered...
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26 July 1602
Shakespeare
's tragedy Hamlet was entered in the Stationers' Register
, probably not long after its first performance.
Texts
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Editor Hoy, Cyrus, W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Callcott, Maria, and William Shakespeare. “Introduction”. The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, edited by J. Martin and J. Martin, J. Van Voorst, 1840.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Macbeth, edited by Kenneth Muir, Methuen, 1953, p. xi - lxxiv.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Sonnets, edited by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Macmillan, 1964, p. vii - xxxvii.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction and Textual Note”. Hamlet, edited by Edward Hubler, New American Library, 1963.
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Editor Rowse, Alfred Leslie, Macmillan, 1964.
Shakespeare, William. The Family Shakespeare. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, R. Cruttwell; J. Hatchard, 1807.
Shakespeare, William. The Plays of William Shakespeare. Editor Johnson, Samuel, Vol.
8 vols.
, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1765.