Samuel Schoenbaum

Standard Name: Schoenbaum, Samuel

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Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
A more recent Shakespeare scholar, Samuel Schoenbaum patronisingly attributes her employment by the Athenæum not to her own merit but to a journalistic coup in ingratiating herself with the management.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
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She wrote, according to...
Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
Warwickshire Contemporaries is one of the few texts about which Schoenbaum speaks well. He writes: One is . . . tempted to cry, Bravo, Mrs. Stopes; well done! In these pages . . . a...
Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
Though Schoenbaum avows that CS ' treatment of Shakespeare in this work is refreshing, he notes that she cannot resist quasi-fictional embroidery.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
641
He remarks on her carelessness and finally says of one of her...
Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
This text was not well received then or since. Schoenbaum suggests that it consists of scattered papers of unequal merit and he mentions her tendency to denigrate or ignore the accomplishments of co-workers.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
643
On...
Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
This miscellany is described by Samuel Schoenbaum as mere book-making occasioned by the Tercentenary.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
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However, CS received an Award of the British Academy for its publication.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
739 (16 March 1916): 127
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
Critic Samuel Schoenbaum wrote contemptuously of this book in Shakespeare 's Lives, 1970, while getting its title wrong and offering a simplistic account of ABJ 's life. He ascribes her choice of subject to...
Occupation Charlotte Stopes
CS concentrated her efforts on her writing to generate an income, although on 28 February 1908 she complained to her daughter, the difficulties of my class of work, are, that it requires to be severe...
Reception Charlotte Stopes
CS ' Shakespearan scholarship has received only moderate praise. Samuel Schoenbaum in Shakespeare's Lives wrote that her slovenliness, the vice of amateurism [is] dishearten[ing]: . . . The records Mrs. Stopes quotes are reproduced with...
Reception Charlotte Stopes
However, even Schoenbaum finds things to praise: she did an heroic amount of archaeological burrowing, and found bits and pieces of new information that enhance the record. . . . her true forte was describing...
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Stopes
At one time, says scholar Samuel Schoenbaum , she applied for daily work, presumably as a char, at the Record Office, but was turned away as they had enough girls.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
640
Though Schoenbaum presumes that...

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Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.