William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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Literary responses Mercy Otis Warren
Her biographer, Katharine Anthony , finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière and Shakespeare ; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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Literary responses Mary Butts
The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay 's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
380
It did, however, receive several positive...
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
The Athenæum reviewer, William Hepworth Dixon , admired this verse drama as an elegy thrown into dialogue, excusing its lack of stagecraft as an absence merely of the knowing turns and movements necessary when the...
Literary responses Anna Steele
The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...
Literary responses Ngaio Marsh
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.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
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...
Literary responses Ann Yearsley
The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had...
Literary responses Mary Lamb
Mary referred to her work as poor little baby-stories, in the context of her own inability (she said in a letter) to write about anything else except her current work.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.
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(She reported Charles...
Literary responses Marina Warner
This book has proved fruitful and positive, generating many reviews and substantial scholarly articles, written from several perspectives. These include its focus on the untold story of the women in Shakespeare 's Tempest, and...
Literary responses Ethel M. Dell
She judged that EMD dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides or Shakespeare ; in an image...
Literary responses Edna O'Brien
Terry Eagleton , reviewing The Little Red Chairs for the London Review of Books, pointed out the resemblance between Dragan and the actual, historical Radovan KaradŽić. He noted too the different linguistic registers...
Literary responses Mary Lady Chudleigh
Editor Margaret Ezell notes how several women readers copied MLC 's most celebrated poem, To the Ladies, into irrelevant volumes, which they presumably thought a more secure repository than scraps of paper for a...
Literary responses Ethel M. Dell
In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics.
qtd. in
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...
Literary responses Aemilia Lanyer
AL suffered the fate of many early women writers in being not so much discouraged as ignored. Despite the presentation copies, it does not appear that her splendid poem had a wide circulation. When she...

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