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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
When Baillie re-read her own Witchcraft as a work in progress she wrote: I am inclined to think well of it. Renfrew witches upon a polite stage! Will such a thing ever be endorsed!
qtd. in
Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre, 2008.
The...
Literary responses Helen Maria Williams
A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes,
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 251
her landscapes, and her convincing characters from nature, as well as the feminine sweetness in her style and...
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.
175
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 Joanna Baillie
The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 602
Literary Setting Michelene Wandor
The writing here mixes love poetry with the evocation of historical periods (the Renaissance, the time of Shakespeare ) and milieus (the various displacements of the Jews around Europe). Her re-envisioning of Esther involves MW
Literary Setting Mary Julia Young
MJY 's novel is set in eleventh-century Scotland, a couple of generations after the time of Shakespeare 's Macbeth. Donalda, also known as the Flower of Yarrow, suspects that the mystery of her...
Literary Setting Constance Naden
The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or...
Literary Setting Sir J. M. Barrie
Crichton is a lower-class hero in class-stratified England, who is vindicated in the setting of an imagined island, rather in the manner of Shakespeare an romance.
Literary Setting Mathilde Blind
MB uses an epigraph from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (in Edward FitzGerald 's free translation): The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter—and the bird is on the wing.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
prelims
Literary Setting Radagunda Roberts
The action takes place in Edinburgh immediately after the reign of Shakespeare 's Macbeth (whose leading character is, however, seldom mentioned), soon after the conquest of England by William the Conqueror . Malcolm loves and...
Literary Setting E. Nesbit
Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN 's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway...
Material Conditions of Writing Flora Thompson
FT had grown up reading poetry and wishing to be a poet. For years this was the direction of her deepest literary aspirations, in which Ronald Campbell MacFie helped and encouraged her. Stressful periods in...
Material Conditions of Writing Willa Cather
At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...

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