Connections
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Education | Harriette Wilson | While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Susan Hill | Some years later she had a flirtation with the scholarly life that led her to register for a degree in Shakespeare
Studies at the University of Birmingham
. She abandoned this degree after a term... |
Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
Education | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Two years later her mother decided she should be educated at home, and sought out for that purpose her own former governess, Miss Cobham. Lessons lasted for three hours every morning. With Miss Cobham, Jane... |
Education | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's... |
Education | Harold Pinter | HP
attended Hackney Downs Grammar School
, where he excelled at sports, particularly as a runner. Joe Brearley
, his teacher of English, was important in nurturing his love of poetry and drama, and casting... |
Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 31 |
Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Education | Mary Catherine Hume | Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 101 |
Education | Hélène Cixous | She had already begun courses to prepare for university entrance at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers a year earlier. In 1957 she earned her bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Bordeaux
... |
Education | Anne Manning | AM
was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897. 211 |
Education | Rumer Godden | In India, RG
later wrote, it was thought there were five things a girl needed to know if she were to take her place in any sort of society: to dance, to play the... |
Education | Kathleen Raine | |
Education | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught... |
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.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
294
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.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Macbeth, edited by Kenneth Muir, Methuen, 1953, p. xi - lxxiv.
xviii-xx
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.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
7
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
.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
313
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41. 40
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.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
12
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Sonnets, edited by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Macmillan, 1964, p. vii - xxxvii.
xiii
Everett, Barbara. “Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 4, 8 May 2008, pp. 12-15. 12-13
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.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Macbeth, edited by Kenneth Muir, Methuen, 1953, p. xi - lxxiv.
xvi
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
.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
326
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
.
Dobson, Michael. “Whatever you do, buy”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 8-10.
8-9
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
12
Lea, Richard. “Shakespeare’s First Folio fetches ¥2.8m”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 July 2006.
Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016.
2-3, 16, 56
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
300-1
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
2: 314n27
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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 123
12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...
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12 December 1677
John Dryden
's tragedy All 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
.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Dryden, John. Dryden, Poetry, Prose and Plays. Editor Grant, Douglas, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
586
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