Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Textual Features | Jane Austen | The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had... |
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... |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society
in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul
, in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | When Baillie re-read her own Witchcraft as a work in progress she wrote: I am inclined to think well of it. Renfrew witches upon a polite stage! Will such a thing ever be endorsed! |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 38 (1828): 602 |
Travel | Joanna Baillie | They travelled via Stratford upon Avon, where they were gratified by the historical memory of Shakespeare
, and then Ludlow, Montgomery, Dolgellau, and Caernarfon, to the seaside town of Barmouth... |
names | Joanna Baillie | Walter Scott
teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review called this volume a work of such great and original merit, Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 37: 201 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Baker | The play's impulsive young protagonist, Dorothy Archibald, opposes her parents' wishes by falling in love with a bank clerk who plays the violin. Critic Rudolf Weiss
has noted that the play is full of echoes... |
Education | Louisa Baldwin | Following her marriage, she studied German, French, and Italian, as well as the works of Shakespeare
and the novels of George Eliot
. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 114-15, 127 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | |
Other Life Event | Isabella Banks | IB
christened the Queen's memorial oak, which was planted by the actor Samuel Phelps
in Primrose Hill in London as part of the Shakespeare
Tercentenary Celebration. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten. 76, 85 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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1 November 1604: Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, written since...
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1 November 1604
Shakespeare
's tragedy Othello, written since 30 September of the previous year, was performed before James I
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After 3 May 1606
From allusions in Shakespeare
's Macbeth, it seems that this tragedy was completed after this date.
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3 May 1606
An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
5 September 1607: The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon,...
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5 September 1607
The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon, heading for Asia but becalmed for a month off the coast of Sierra Leone, put on a performance of Shakespeare
's Hamlet (a play only five...
7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...
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7 October 1607
The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur
but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton
's answer to Shakespeare
's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register
.
26 November 1607: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear was registered...
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26 November 1607
Shakespeare
's tragedy King Lear was registered with the Stationers' Company
for publication in a quarto edition the following year.
20 May 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets were registered with...
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20 May 1609
Shakespeare
's Sonnets were registered with the Stationers' Company
; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.
20 April 1611: Simon Forman's diary describes the earliest...
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20 April 1611
Simon Forman
's diary describes the earliest recorded performance of Shakespeare
's Macbeth, which was probably completed soon after early May 1606.
Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...
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Before 29 June 1613
Henry VIII, by Shakespeare
(probably with the collaboration of Fletcher
), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre
.
8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...
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8 November 1623
Shakespeare
's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company
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1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...
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1633
Dramatist John Ford
published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
15 April 1644: The Globe Theatre in London, once the home...
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15 April 1644
The Globe Theatre
in London, once the home of Shakespeare
's company, was demolished as part of the ongoing parliamentarian campaign against the theatres.
August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...
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August 1667
John Dryden
published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.
7 November 1670: The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's...
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7 November 1670
The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare
's The Tempest by John Dryden
and the late Sir William Davenant
was first staged.
12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...
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12 December 1677
John Dryden
's tragedyAll for Love; or, The World Well Lost (a blank-verse re-writing of Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra) received its first known (perhaps not its first) performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
.
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