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
Occupation Harold Pinter
He acted for this company for a year and learned a lot. He worked his way up in Shakespearean roles from bit parts to major ones and discovered the writings of Samuel Beckett .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
If biographer Jennifer Carnell is correct, this means that she went on stage at the age of seventeen.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
15
She later described her career in The Press Album (1909) as a thing to be spoken...
Occupation David Garrick
DG made his sensational first appearence on any Stage
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 935
as Shakespeare 's Richard III at Goodman's Fields in London.
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 935
Occupation Clemence Dane
During the intensive bombing of the London Blitz, CD gave readings of Shakespeare in restaurants to anyone who cared to listen.
Amherst, Jeffrey John Archer, Earl. Wandering Abroad: the Autobiography of Jeffrey Amherst. Secker and Warburg, 1976.
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Occupation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman . At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to...
Occupation David Garrick
Garrick staged Shakespeare 's Henry IV, Part 2 at Drury Lane in historical costume instead of in the present fashions.
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 947-8, 960
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.
4: 1419
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 Eliza Haywood
She appeared in Thomas Shadwell 's adaptation of Shakespeare 's Timon of Athens. She seems to have had some provincial acting experience too, and is recorded on stage at Nottingham on 23 April 1717...
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...
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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...
Performance of text Carol Ann Duffy
On the four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death, seven typically touching and witty poems by CAD on Shakespeare the man were performed as Shakespeare Masque, in a musical setting by Sally Beamish , in...
Performance of text Liz Lochhead
LL has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play...

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