William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Production Gillian Clarke
Invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, GC took off from Let me not to the marriage of true minds for a poem on enduring love with examples from the animal kingdom: swallows homing and...
Textual Production Charlotte Maria Tucker
Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it...
Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR published Summer's Lease, a novel whose epigraph comes from the Shakespeare sonnet (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) which contains the words of its title.
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
CS 's critical sally later known as The Bacon -Shakspere Question Answered first appeared under the briefer and less familiar title of The Bacon-Shakspere Question.
Stopes, Charlotte. The Bacon-Shakspere Question. T. G. Johnson.
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Textual Production Antonia Fraser
For the Jemima Shore mystery Political DeathAF supplied a submerged text in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, which is being produced as part of the action of the novel.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(14 October 1994): 37
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ 's next novel, or pair of novellas, was given different titles for London and for New York publication, and was the first of her works to bear her name (as Mrs. C. Jenkin). The...
Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
MB published To Bed at Noon, the last crime novel she wrote as Joseph Shearing.
This book is titled from the last words spoken by the Fool in Shakespeare 's King Lear:...
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
131
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.
137, 150
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...
Textual Production Kate O'Brien
KOB 's first published novel, Without My Cloak, at once established both her public profile and her characteristic subject-matter.
It is titled from an image in a Shakespeare sonnet: the inconsistent lover lures his...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH collaborated with Robert Aickman on We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories, titled from the words of Charmian, handmaid to Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan.
213
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
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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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