William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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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 Fanny Kemble
FK published, under her own name, a collection of reviews and essays written over the course of her lifetime as Notes upon Some of Shakespeare 's Plays.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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Kemble, Fanny. Notes upon Some of Shakespeare’s Plays. Richard Bentley and Son.
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Textual Production Charlotte Smith
This has her preface replying to hostile criticism of her for querulous egotism,
Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 363-92.
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and for renewing her criticisms of the Smith trustees. She also admits, this time, her economic motive. The number of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
EG published a didactic and critical work, The Morality of Shakespeare 's Drama Illustrated.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, pp. 418-24.
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Textual Production Mary Latter
While staying with John Rich in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her...
Textual Production Carson McCullers
The background to this piece was that Reeves McCullers , divorced husband of Carson, received a commission in the US Army, and wrote her a dignified and heartfelt letter of apology and conciliation, which reminded...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) produced, on commission from Oxford University Press , her first anthology: a World's Classics selection of Shakespeare criticism since the end of the First World War.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
The title-page reads: The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, Investigated by Lady Wallace. An epigraph quotes Shakespeare 's Othello: Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. J. Debrett.
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She...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.
The title comes from a sonnet by Shakespeare
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL pursued the Shakespeare -becomes-contemporary idea in her first volume of short stories, Ophelia and the Great Idea. It bore the publication date of 1989.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published through the Minerva Press another novel, Nocturnal Visit, A Tale; Shakespeare is quoted on the title-page.
Roche, Regina Maria. Nocturnal Visit, A Tale. Minerva Press.
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Textual Production Patricia Wentworth
PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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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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 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

Timeline

1978: Melissa Murray's play Belisha Beacon was...

Women writers item

1978

Melissa Murray 's playBelisha Beacon was produced and performed by the Pirate Jenny theatre group, in the same year as two more plays by her, one solo and one collaborative.

27 January 1979: A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public...

National or international item

27 January 1979

A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean phrase winter of discontent.

23 April 1993: The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank...

Building item

23 April 1993

The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank (masterminded by Sam Wanamaker and designed as a modified replica of Shakespeare 's theatre), although still a building site, put on its first production.

13 July 2006: A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under...

Writing climate item

13 July 2006

A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under the hammer both a First Folio of the works of Shakespeare and a copy of the first edition of Woolf 's Orlando inscribed to Vita Sackville-West .

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