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.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Noel Streatfeild | NS
opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Toulmin Smith | In providing readers with a guide to understanding Shakespeare
's plays, Smith takes a lively approach: at one point she warns her readers that Falstaff, it must be said, is not always fit company for... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare
's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its... |
Textual Production | Elinor Mordaunt | The title, quoted from Shakespeare
's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it... |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper
copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several... |
Textual Production | Christopher St John | After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw
: a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Bell | GB
published her fourth travel book, Amurath to Amurath, which she copiously illustrated with her own photographs, Howell, Georgina. Daughter of the Desert: the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell. Macmillan. 132 The title comes from Shakespeare
's Henry V contrasting his accession... |
Textual Production | Sophia King | |
Textual Production | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of... |
Timeline
About March 1681: Nahum Tate's re-written version of Shakespeare's...
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About March 1681
Nahum Tate
's re-written version of Shakespeare
's tragedyKing Lear was staged in London; it was printed the same year.
1702: An Act to Oblige Jews to Maintain and Provide...
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1702
An Act to Oblige Jews to Maintain and Provide for their Protestant Children forbade Jewish fathers from disinheriting daughters who (like Jessica in William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice) converted to Christianity.
Kerrigan, John. “Fathers Who Live Too Long”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 17, pp. 18-19. 18
20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...
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20 May 1707
Jacob Tonson
the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare
's plays.
10 April 1710: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning...
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10 April 1710
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (later called the Copyright Act), passed in 1709, became effective.
6 December 1718: Nicholas Rowe, playwright, translator, and...
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6 December 1718
Nicholas Rowe
, playwright, translator, and editor of Shakespeare
, died after four years in the post of Poet Laureate.
2 July 1737: The Opposition paper The Craftsman published...
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2 July 1737
The Opposition paper The Craftsman published excerpts from Shakespeare
's King John which were designed to reflect obloquy on the conduct of George II
.
Late 1737 to spring 1738: A group of women calling themselves Shakespeare's...
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Late 1737 to spring 1738
A group of women calling themselves Shakespeare
's Ladies persuaded the two licensed playhouses in London to stage many of Shakespeare
's long-neglected plays.
By February 1741: A monument was erected by subscription to...
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By February 1741
A monument was erected by subscription to the memory of Shakespeare
in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...
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1767
At auctions of copyright, Richardson
's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison
and Steele
's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare
at £1,800, and Pope
at £4,400.
14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...
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14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
20 June 1787: Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...
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20 June 1787
Actor John Palmer
briefly opened the first new London theatre since 1732: the Royalty
in Well Street.
By 1 May 1789: John Boydell opened his Shakespeare Gallery,...
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By 1 May 1789
John Boydell
opened his Shakespeare Gallery
, an exhibition of British artists' renderings of scenes from Shakespeare
.
29 November 1790: Edmond Malone, who in 1778 had published...
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29 November 1790
Edmond Malone
, who in 1778 had published the first serious attempt at a date order for Shakespeare's plays, followed that with his immensely learned edition of Shakespeare
, which set the standards for later scholarship.
2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...
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2 April 1796
Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered tragedy by Shakespeare
but actually written by William Henry Ireland
, opened under Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's management at Drury Lane
.
November 1802: Thomas Holcroft's "A Tale of Mystery", produced...
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November 1802
Thomas Holcroft
's "A Tale of Mystery", produced at Covent Garden
, formally introduced melodrama to the English stage.
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