William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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Textual Production Angela Thirkell
For O, these Men, these Men!, a non-comic novel, AT chose a title quotation from Shakespeare 's Othello, in which a wife (Emilia) makes light of a marital situation (with her husband Iago)...
Textual Production Mary Charlton
Its title-page (as well as bearing a quotation from Shakespeare ) mentions several of her earlier works.
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
In a counterblast to Voltaire , EM published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable.
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Textual Production E. M. Delafield
Its title comes from Shakespeare 's As You Like It, whose heroine, Rosalind, admonishes the haughty Phoebe to go down on her knees and thank heaven,fasting, for a good man's love.
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
That same year she wrote an introduction to Percy Allen 's Plays of Shakespeare & Chapman in Relation to French History. In 1934 she selected and published the short-story collection More Great Tales of...
Textual Production Hannah Lynch
The English print-run of the Echegaray translation was 400 copies. Lynch's solid, 30-page introduction, in part reprinted from the Contemporary Review, makes no attempt at boosting her subject. She compares Echegaray in his various...
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.
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Textual Production Ruth Padel
In Your Life as a WaveRP , invited to respond to Shakespeare 's sonnets, built on Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore in two sections based on the successive movement: incoming...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
JW published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean plot. She dedicated it to the...
Textual Production Sheenagh Pugh
This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...
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.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) produced, on commission from Oxford University Press , her first anthology: a World's Classics selection of Shakespeare criticism since the end of the First World War.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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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, p. R11.

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June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...

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June 1911

Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare 's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players .

1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...

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1913

Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College .

15 February 1913: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened with...

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15 February 1913

The Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened with a performance of Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare .

December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...

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December 1927

Nancy Hewins opened the first production by her touring Osiris Players , Britain's first professional all-female theatre company (successor to the amateur Isis Players , which she had run as an Oxford undergraduate).

23 April 1932: On the traditional date of Shakespeare's...

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23 April 1932

On the traditional date of Shakespeare 's birthday, the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon opened with a performance of Henry IV, parts I and II.

1944: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in...

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1944

Laurence Olivier directed and starred in the film Henry V, making the most of the English patriotic feeling in Shakespeare 's original play.

1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...

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1944

The Old Vic Company began its season at New Theatre in London with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in Ibsen 's Peer Gynt, Shaw 's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare 's Richard III.

1946: At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born...

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1946

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Irish-born Catherine Gaskin (now resident in Australia) published her first novel, This Other Eden (titled from a famous speech about England spoken by Shakespeare 's John of Gaunt).

April 1946: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford...

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April 1946

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare produced by Peter Brook .

1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, released the previous...

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1949

Laurence Olivier 's Hamlet,William Shakespeare released the previous year, became the first British film to win the Oscar for best film.

1951: Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established...

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1951

Theatre historian Allardyce Nicoll established the Shakespeare Institute ; it is part of Birmingham University and is housed in Mason Croft at Stratford, formerly the home of novelist Marie Corelli .

10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...

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10 May 1951

Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier began the season at St James's Theatre , London, alternately playing Shaw 's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra.

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

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December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .

: Peter Brook directed at Stratford upon Avon...

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Spring1970

Peter Brook directed at Stratford upon Avon a production of Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream which redefined the possibilities of theatre.

23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...

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23 April 1975

A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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