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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Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare heading the list.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 110
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Textual Production Dorothy Bussy
The volume contains 267 of the more than one thousand extant letters between Bussy and Gide, translated from French into English. The first volume of their Correspondance had been published in Paris in 1980. In...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS published another memoir volume, Benefits Forgot (quoted from Shakespeare 's As You Like It), which she says she strung on the theme of gratitude.
Stern, G. B. A Name to Conjure With. Collins, 1953.
12
Textual Production Iza Duffus Hardy
IDH 's A New Othello, A Novel ran as a serial in London Society, before appearing in three volumes in 1890. She radically alters and complicates the plot of Shakespeare 's play.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
206
Textual Production Pamela Frankau
PF published The Willow Cabin, whose title echoes the words of Shakespeare 's Viola in Twelfth Night, telling Orsino (who thinks her a boy) what she would do were she in love.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
Mary Cowden Clarke published the work for which she is principally remembered, The Girlhood of Shakespeare 's Heroines; in a series of fifteen tales.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1208 (21 December 1850)
Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
The play was published in 1901, with a preface titled BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE ?
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
Knopf Canada published MA 's Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare 's The Tempest for the Hogarth Shakespeare series which sets out to re-imagine the plays in novel form.
Awad, Mona. “Art to enchant”. The Globe and Mail, 15 Oct. 2016, p. R11.
Textual Production Charlotte Stopes
CS published Shakespeare 's Warwickshire Contemporaries, a collection of biographies which she had written and had already printed separately.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press, 1970.
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Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
At the age of eight, GS tried to write a Shakespeare an drama. She abandoned this project, however, for the less demanding melodrama, Snatched from Death; or, The Sundered Sisters.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
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Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
At fifteen, in spring 1907, Vincent Millay began keeping a diary which she entitled Rosemary (in reference to memory, implicitly to Ophelia's words in Shakespeare 's Hamlet: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC published Absent in the Spring, another novel under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, which she had written within three days in July 1943.
The title comes from a sonnet by Shakespeare
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research, 1989.
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Textual Production Pamela Frankau
She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare 's famously irresolute hero, and...
Textual Production Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ issued the first novel of a trilogy which it took her until 1949 to complete: Too Dear for My Possessing, titled from a Shakespearean sonnet.
Lindblad, Ishrat. Pamela Hansford Johnson. Twayne, 1982.
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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.

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