William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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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.
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according to a recent biographer.
The title comes from Shakespeare 's Henry V contrasting his accession...
Textual Production Flora Annie Steel
FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...
Textual Production Lucy Walford
In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...
Textual Production Elinor Mordaunt
The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.
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 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 Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Benger wrote an impromptu poem in the presence of one W. J. S., A Lament: on the Paucity of Information Respecting the Life and Character of Shakespeare—a fitting subject for a biographer.
Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press.
2nd ser. (1861) xi: 384
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack
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.
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Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
Although she disapproved of The Mill on the Floss, GJ praised George Eliot 's Adam Bede for its genius and also liked Silas Marner for its depictions of human nature, however humbly embodied it...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS worked with her husband on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner 's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready...
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 Ngaio Marsh
She collaborated with her old friend the actor Jonathan Elsom on a one-man vehicle for him entitled Sweet Mr. Shakespeare, incorporating a mixture of biography, anecdotes, sonnets and speeches.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus.
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Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
James Boswell drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare Illustrated; this edition was never completed.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press.
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Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 416-35.
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Textual Production Theodora Benson
TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.
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.

Timeline

1978: Melissa Murray's play Belisha Beacon was...

Women writers item

1978

Melissa Murray 's playBelisha Beacon was produced and performed by the Pirate Jenny theatre group, in the same year as two more plays by her, one solo and one collaborative.

27 January 1979: A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public...

National or international item

27 January 1979

A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean phrase winter of discontent.

23 April 1993: The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank...

Building item

23 April 1993

The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank (masterminded by Sam Wanamaker and designed as a modified replica of Shakespeare 's theatre), although still a building site, put on its first production.

13 July 2006: A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under...

Writing climate item

13 July 2006

A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under the hammer both a First Folio of the works of Shakespeare and a copy of the first edition of Woolf 's Orlando inscribed to Vita Sackville-West .

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