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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | A different third-person narrator replaces the somewhat pompous gentleman of An Antidote. The book's subect is the relations between the two Placid women, mother and daughter, and the squire's family, the Bustles (who are... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | Among her Shakespeare
an roles for the company were Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Donalbain in Macbeth, and the King's page in Richard III. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 39 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Batten Cristall | Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten
; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister... |
Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer
and Shakespeare
onwards. Crommelin, May, editor. Poets in the Garden. T. Fisher Unwin. |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA
. The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It... |
Textual Features | Anne Dacier | She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer
's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a... |
Occupation | Anne Damer | In 2014 an exhibition of Damer's work in marble, terracotta and bronze was shown at Strawberry Hill. Also on display were her anatomy sketch-book, her prompt copies of plays performed at Richmond House and... |
Leisure and Society | Anne Damer | AD
was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner
painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(a particularly frequent sitter on account of her... |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | During the intensive bombing of the London Blitz, CD
gave readings of Shakespeare
in restaurants to anyone who cared to listen. Jeffrey John Archer, Earl Amherst,. Wandering Abroad: the Autobiography of Jeffrey Amherst. Secker and Warburg. 203 |
Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's experimental play Will Shakespeare was first performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre
, London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133 |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey
and by Ethel Watts
(chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service
), the latter of whom hoped that in the future... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clemence Dane | Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare
's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clemence Dane | It treats the relationship between Shakespeare
and Sir William Davenant
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