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
Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
At the request of James T. Fields she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
149
house that she saw while house-hunting in Genoa: to her regret the magazine...
Reception Marie Corelli
MC took her own work extremely seriously, seeing herself as the Shakespeare of her age and genre.
Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii.
xiv
Her status as an unprecedented best-seller brought both celebration and derision, just as her anti-suffrage views, which...
Reception Sarah Lewis
Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare —the highest position accorded to...
Reception Flora Thompson
In further Ladies Companion competitions the same year, FT went on to win joint second prize for her essay on Emily Brontë (which, again, the magazine printed) and another first prize for her essay on...
Reception Molly Keane
When she wrote this book, MKthought it was pure Shakespeare . Well, not Shakespeare exactly—more Dornford Yates .
qtd. in
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
122
Yates wrote popular, jokey novels about a charismatic but self-regarding and jingoistic set of comfortably-off...
Reception Jane Austen
Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in...
Residence Marie Corelli
In Stratford, MC became known as an eccentric. Her forceful character and her self-proclaimed guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory and birthplace offended many townspeople.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
She was a strong critic of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ...
Residence Susan Hill
Just before her elder daughter's first birthday, SH moved with her family from Stratford to Oxford, where her husband was appointed editor of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare .
Hill, Susan. Family. Michael Joseph, 1989.
79-80
Textual Features Isak Dinesen
Writer Liz Lochhead comments that these tough, transparent fables of longing, of difficult delight and consolation, are romances in the Shakespearian sense.
Lochhead, Liz. “Ice”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, Jan. 2004, pp. 26-7.
27
Judith Thurman calls this volume the most Danish of ID 's works...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
There are occasional moments of wit, as when destitution reveals that the family servants think terms of practical life rather than sentimental fiction: the old-fashioned type of servant, who appears so frequently in Morton 's...
Textual Features H. D.
Critic Dianne Chisholm calls this book an autobiographical fiction in the genre of case history narrative, and argues that it employs the discourse of hysteria
Chisholm, Dianne. H.D.’s Freudian Poetics. Cornell University Press, 1992.
77
Finding no semiotic system that represents her experience, no...
Textual Features Frances Arabella Rowden
An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820)
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829.
1829, iv
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
Textual Features Ann Jellicoe
The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare
Textual Features Barbara Cartland
Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams...
Textual Features Hélène Cixous
As she was preparing to stage La Prise de l'école de Madhubai in 1984, she met Ariane Mnouchkine , the director of the experimental Théâtre du Soleil , who was known for her innovation in...

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