William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Production Malorie Blackman
MB published Chasing the Stars, a book for young adults which again features a young couple in love who have the cards stacked against them. However, the Shakespearean reference (well-suited to the centenary year...
Textual Production Charlotte Despard
The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare 's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD 's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...
Textual Production H. D.
H. D. wrote the first part of her tribute published four years later as By Avon River; this part, concerned with Shakespeare , is a poem entitled Good Frend (the opening words on the...
Textual Production H. D.
H. D. published By Avon River: the Avon is the one flowing through Stratford, and the book celebrates the Shakespeare an moment in literature.
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Jennifer Johnston
JJ 's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
It was published by J. Harris , with a quotation from Shakespeare on the title-page, and proved one of BH 's most successful titles, in France and the USA as well as in England.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Textual Production Wendy Cope
Four hundred years after Shakespeare 's death, a volume of poetic responses to his sonnets was assembled. WC contributed a variation on sonnet 22, My glass shall not persuade me I am old: a...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG published a study of Anne or Ann Hathaway which she entitled Shakespeare 's Wife.
Shapiro, James. “Visible Woman”. London Review of Books, pp. 29-30.
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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack
Textual Production Iza Duffus Hardy
IDH published her first novel, Not Easily Jealous (whose title comes from one of the hero's final speeches in Shakespeare 's Othello).
The OCLC WorldCat lists A Woman's Triumph, published this year, as...
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
At the age of eight, GS tried to write a Shakespeare an drama. She abandoned this project, however, for the less demanding melodrama, Snatched from Death; or, The Sundered Sisters.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
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Textual Production Monica Furlong
MF titled her single book of poetry God's a Good Man, an assertion made by Shakespeare 's Dogberry which she finds absurd but moving.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's From the Vasty Deep is a thriller titled from the boast of Shakespeare 's Glendower about his power to summon spirits, and published by November the same year. It takes for its protagonist...

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7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...

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7 June 1810

William Charles Macready (son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare an roles.

August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...

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August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.

1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...

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1818

William Hazlitt published A View of the English Stage.

By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...

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By April 1818

Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler .

1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...

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1835

Helen Faucit made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden Theatre, aged eighteen.

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...

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1864

Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.

1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...

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1870

Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem by William Allingham , a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.

By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...

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By 12 June 1880

Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first of her rather wooden
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
novels, There's Rue for You.

1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...

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1885

Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare 's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.

1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...

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1893

Vale Press was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts ; its first two books were published by John Lane .

6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...

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6 June 1904

A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head Press at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare bought in 1597.

1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...

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1906

Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy by Isabella Fyvie Mayo as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw ), was published.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
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and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...

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19 May 1908

A campaign to establish a National Theatre began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre , London.

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