William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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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.
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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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Author summary Henrietta Maria Bowdler
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...
Author summary Elizabeth Montagu
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
Author summary Charlotte Stopes
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...
Author summary Mary Cowden Clarke
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...
Author summary Samuel Johnson
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...
Publishing Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare 's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages.
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Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
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Publishing Angela Thirkell
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...
Publishing Jane Gardam
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...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare (the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, pp. 1-85.
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Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC issued in eighteen monthly parts The Complete Concordance to Shakspere.
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, 1990.
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens , who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no...
Publishing Caroline Blackwood
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:...

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