William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Production Barbara Hofland
Longman published BH 's Beatrice, a Tale Founded on Facts, in an edition of 500 copies, with Shakespeare quotations on its title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Textual Production Jackie Kay
Contributing along with Gillian Clarke , Carol Ann Duffy , Jo Shapcott , Fiona Sampson , and many others, to a collection of poetic responses to Shakespeare four hundred years after his death, JK replied...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
Knopf Canada published MA 's Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare 's The Tempest for the Hogarth Shakespeare series which sets out to re-imagine the plays in novel form.
Awad, Mona. “Art to enchant”. The Globe and Mail, p. R11.
Textual Production Margiad Evans
ME 's journals, kept from her youth onwards, often served to write what I want to get rid of.
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren.
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In the mid and later 1930s they break out periodically in a passionate fury of...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.
Shapiro, James. “Visible Woman”. London Review of Books, pp. 29-30.
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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?
Textual Production Iza Duffus Hardy
IDH published her first novel, Not Easily Jealous (whose title comes from one of the hero's final speeches in Shakespeare 's Othello).
The OCLC WorldCat lists A Woman's Triumph, published this year, as...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London: adapted from the title story in her Three Blind Mice, and Other Stories, 1948. It was still playing in 2014, as...
Textual Production Kate Parry Frye
KFP dreamed of success as a playwright as well as an actress at least from the year 1911. In February 1918 she was working on a play, apparently about divorce, to be entitled Broken...
Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU published another in her series of works about her happy childhood on the family farm: Ambush of Young Days, with a quotation from a Shakespeare sonnet which her son had chosen.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Textual Production H. D.
H. D. published By Avon River: the Avon is the one flowing through Stratford, and the book celebrates the Shakespeare an moment in literature.
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia.
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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.
Textual Production Jennifer Johnston
JJ 's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French .
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.
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC and her husband finished work on their annotated Shakespeare ; two days later they began on The Shakespeare Key.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
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Timeline

7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...

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7 June 1810

William Charles Macready (son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare an roles.

August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...

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August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.

1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...

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1818

William Hazlitt published A View of the English Stage.

By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...

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By April 1818

Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler .

1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...

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1835

Helen Faucit made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden Theatre, aged eighteen.

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...

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1864

Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.

1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...

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1870

Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem by William Allingham , a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.

By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...

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By 12 June 1880

Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first of her rather wooden
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.
novels, There's Rue for You.

1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...

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1885

Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare 's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.

1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...

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1893

Vale Press was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts ; its first two books were published by John Lane .

6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...

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6 June 1904

A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head Press at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare bought in 1597.

1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...

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1906

Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy by Isabella Fyvie Mayo as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw ), was published.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
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and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...

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19 May 1908

A campaign to establish a National Theatre began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre , London.

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