William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Production Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
Her most most notable illustrations were done between 1790 and 1806 for a 5-volume edition of Shakespeare 's history plays, extant at Althorp in Northamptonshire.
Behrendt, Stephen C., and George Holmes, editors. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period”. Alexander Street Press.
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS published another memoir volume, Benefits Forgot (quoted from Shakespeare 's As You Like It), which she says she strung on the theme of gratitude.
Stern, G. B. A Name to Conjure With. Collins.
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Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3835 (12 September 1975): 1014
Textual Production Ruth Padel
In Your Life as a WaveRP , invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, built on Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore in two sections based on the successive movement: incoming...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
NJ published a novel entitled Barren Metal (a title taken from a speech of Antonio in Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice).
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Textual Production Mary Sewell
MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .
Kronheim and Company was an influential firm of colour printers. The company was established by J. M. Kronheim
Textual Production Gertrude Bell
GB published her fourth travel book, Amurath to Amurath, which she copiously illustrated with her own photographs,
Howell, Georgina. Daughter of the Desert: the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell. Macmillan.
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according to a recent biographer.
The title comes from Shakespeare 's Henry V contrasting his accession...
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
TH 's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, as the author of Desperate Remedies, was in a different style: a love-story whose village setting is pastorally depicted, as the title from Shakespeare suggests.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin.
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Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...
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.
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, 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 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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Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

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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