William Shakespeare

MADH , like her daughter, was a keen theatre-goer and attender of concerts. She enjoyed the occasional melodrama, but preferred serious plays, and was delighted to discover that the New YorkShakespearean repertoire was far...

With books hard to come by, RG read and re-read those she had, often sent her by relatives and often new publications. She called Austenexactly what I need and likened herself to Emma.

At some time after 1736 EB became a member of the Shakespeare's Ladies Club , whose activities included pressuring the theatres to stage more Shakespeare plays.

While at school, PHJ was a regular attender in the sixpenny gallery of the Old Vic Theatre , then run by Lilian Baylis .

As to the drama, QV thought the works of William Shakespeare to be very coarse. She recommended Faust and French plays, about which she said that [o]ne's dislike to a nation need not...

EH was a frequent participant in amateur dramatic readings. She often read the works of Robert Browning . Shakespeare , perhaps owing to her childhood deprivation, was also a particular favourite. She was praised as...

MSC kept up with contemporary publications. She asked her son Astley to send her from London the latest volume of Johnson 's edition of Shakespeare and found the works of Hannah Morea...

AD was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (a particularly frequent sitter on account of her...

Though not fond of other forms of exercise, she became a fearless rider and an excellent whip—that is, a driver of horses in harness. She was a talented amateur actress, most memorable...

The many editions of CS 's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...

Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt , Coleridge , and Schlegel .

SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...

Deryn Rees-Jones , reviewing for The Independent, expressed admiration for KC 's technique, language, imagery, and her success in capturing the bewilderment, and scratchy impatience, of being a parent. Her supple, textured writing is...

Margaret Lewis judged these lectures do not deserve the oblivion into which they have fallen, since they sparkle with insight, humour and a genuine understanding of Shakespeare and his interpreters, and exhibit erudition lightly worn.

The audience was huge: the theatre took in £234, nine shillings, one of the biggest takes of the month. But it included a cabal who hissed and catcalled, being either provoked by the playwright's gender...