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.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Noel Streatfeild | NS
opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lesley Storm | The title is a near-quotation from Shakespeare
's A Midsummer Night's Dream—the working man who is about to play the role of the lion promises not to frighten the ladies in the audience: I... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
published Burbage
and Shakespeare
's Stage, a biography of James Burbage. 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 610 (18 September 1913): 385 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
collected another volume of her articles to publish as Shakespeare
's Environment. 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 672 (3 December 1914): 536 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
published Shakespeare
's Industry. |
Author summary | Charlotte Stopes | CS
was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare
. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely... |
Occupation | Charlotte Stopes | CS
founded a Discussion Society for Ladies
as well as a Shakespeare Reading Society
, lecturing occasionally on topics relevant to both women and Shakespeare
. She was initially a member of the New Shakespeare Society |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | |
Publishing | Charlotte Stopes | Although it was relatively unpopular with the critics, Shakespeare
's Environment was reprinted with additions in 1918. 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 | Charlotte Stopes | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
published Shakespeare
's Warwickshire Contemporaries, a collection of biographies which she had written and had already printed separately. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press. 640 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | CS
published Shakespeare
's Family, which is largely a record of the poet's ancestors and descendants. 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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The title comes from Shakespeare
's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island... |
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