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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Occupation P. L. Travers
Instead of taking up her university scholarship, PLT went to work. First Aunt Ellie wangled her a secretarial job for which she had to fake competence in maths. Then she managed to get permission to...
Occupation Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...
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
Occupation Edith Craig
In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike . Playwright Clemence Dane gave a memorial speech...
Occupation Mary Matilda Betham
MMB wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence...
Occupation Mary Robinson
MR caught the eye of the young Prince of Wales as she acted Perdita in a royal command performance of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale; she was twenty-two (or twenty-three) to his seventeen.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
101
Nathan, Alix. “Mistaken or Misled? Mary Robinson’s Birth Date”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2002, pp. 139-42.
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Occupation Leah Sumbel
From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS ) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in...
Occupation Muriel Box
MB began running the scenario department at Gainsborough Studios when those studios were being managed by Sydney. This job, or these jobs, left the pair of them less time for original script-writing, though script-doctoring remained...
Occupation Mary Robinson
Though very nervous, she felt a new sensation
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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of emulation or ambition. She lists all the parts she played in the 1777-8 season (often describing her costumes in detail). Her greatest successes were in...
Occupation Christopher St John
They began annual memorial performances of Shakespeare 's plays in Terry's honour. In 1929, their opening season, CSJ appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Other Life Event Isabella Banks
IB christened the Queen's memorial oak, which was planted by the actor Samuel Phelps in Primrose Hill in London as part of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
76, 85
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Performance of text John Oliver Hobbes
In the same year JOH and Moore also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare ), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir)
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911.
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Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's experimental play Will Shakespeare was first performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre , London.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 133
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
EF 's best-known play, the feminist piece Lear's Daughters, written in collaboration with the Women's Theatre Group , a prequel revisioning Shakespeare 's story, was staged in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Alison Fell
AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...

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