William Shakespeare

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...

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...

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...

MCC was a leading nineteenth-century Shakespearean scholar, who (in collaboration with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke ) annotated editions, compiled a concordance, and wrote a key or encyclopaedia, and on her own account produced an...

CS was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare . In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely...

HMB , who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare inoffensive to delicate ears...

EM , eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare

SJ published by subscription, again after many delays, his edition of Shakespeare .

CB changed publishers to Heinemann for a volume of short stories and essays titled with the words of Shakespeare 's Ophelia, which had been given a new slant by Eliot in The Waste Land:...

PF 's agent rejected the first novel she finished after Marriage of Harlequin, which dealt with a playwright she had imagined herself in love with, and which she called (again from Shakespeare 's Hamlet...

MC contributed a six-page letter to a book entitled The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, which illustrates with engravings the famous seven ages passage of As You Like It.

In Spring 2011 JG published in The Author a funny and joyous little piece entitled and good in everything (words which in Shakespeare 's As You Like It follow the aspiration to find sermons in...

AG had been urged to publish when she first became a widow, but had more dread of censure than hope of applause. The manuscript was accepted by Longman in spring 1805, although it...

Once established as a scholar, MCC staked out a territory as a critic in On Shakespeare 's Individuality in His Characters, a series of articles carried by Sharpe's London Magazine during 1848-51. She...

In 1930, once she was back in England, she found she could earn her living by journalism for Punch and the Fortnightly Review. She was attuned to writing by women from an early stage...