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 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 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 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 Ngaio Marsh
She also returned (from September 1939) to producing plays,
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
85
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 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 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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Occupation Sarah Flower Adams
In addition to writing hymns, SFA attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 4
Her...
Occupation Anne Damer
In 2014 an exhibition of Damer's work in marble, terracotta and bronze was shown at Strawberry Hill. Also on display were her anatomy sketch-book, her prompt copies of plays performed at Richmond House and...
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.
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She later described her career in The Press Album (1909) as a thing to be spoken...
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 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 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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at...
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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