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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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 Iris Murdoch
Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
names Rose Allatini
  • BirthName: Rose Laure Allatini
  • Nickname: Viola
    Her husband used this name for her in his initiate books. Its Shakespearean origin suggests connotations of romance, courage, and cross-dressing.
    Fuller, Jean Overton. Cyril Scott and a Hidden School: Towards the Peeling of an Onion. Theosophical History, 1998.
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  • Married: Scott
    RA published one book, White...
names Anna Jane Vardill
  • BirthName: Anna Jane Vardill
  • Nickname: Variella
    De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.
    Variella was also the name of a character in John Till Allingham 's 1805 play The Weathercock, who is described by Peter Cochran as a shape-changing, disguise-addicted girl...
names Joanna Baillie
Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
names Fay Weldon
  • BirthName: Franklin Birkinshaw
    FW 's mother invented her name for reasons of numerology: Franklin Birkinshaw produced the same numerical total as William Shakespeare. She was expecting a boy, and wanted to name him after...
Occupation Fanny Kemble
At Highgate Institute, FK gave a formal reading of Shakespeare ; she abandoned acting altogether this month to make her living exclusively through readings.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Occupation Flora Macdonald Mayor
She worked briefly with the Ben Greet Players after finishing her degree,
Hill, Susan, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, 1980, p. n.p.
prelims
taking small roles in various Shakespearean plays which the company was known for performing on tour in picturesque outdoor settings. At times...
Occupation David Garrick
David Garrick 's Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford caused a mighty furore, and laid the foundation for a whole tradition of bardolatry and the heritage industry.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Occupation Ngaio Marsh
She also returned (from September 1939) to producing plays,
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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from which proceeds went towards the war effort. In 1943 she began work with the Canterbury University College Drama Society in the Little Theatre, Christchurch...
Occupation Elizabeth Griffith
EG opened her career as an actress at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin, as the heroine in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, playing to the middle-aged Romeo of the manager, Thomas Sheridan .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...
Occupation Ngaio Marsh
Later, as the detective novels kept coming, directing highlights for her included King LearWilliam Shakespeare at the Civic Theatre in Christchurch in 1956, Macbeth in 1962, and Henry V to inaugurate the new James Hay Theatre...
Occupation Marie Corelli
Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...
Occupation Charlotte Stopes
CS founded a Discussion Society for Ladies as well as a Shakespeare Reading Society , lecturing occasionally on topics relevant to both women and Shakespeare . She was initially a member of the New Shakespeare Society

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