William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William

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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 Elinor Mordaunt
The title, quoted from Shakespeare 's Ophelia, hints at madness as well as remembering.
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
This has her preface replying to hostile criticism of her for querulous egotism,
Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 363-92.
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and for renewing her criticisms of the Smith trustees. She also admits, this time, her economic motive. The number of...
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 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.
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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.
96
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
The title-page reads: The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, Investigated by Lady Wallace. An epigraph quotes Shakespeare 's Othello: Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. J. Debrett.
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She...
Textual Production Sophia King
The title-page mentions her joint Trifles, and quotes from Shakespeare 's Macbeth and from Lillo . According to the commonly-accepted view of SK 's birth date (which is not necessarily correct), she wrote this...
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC and her husband began work on a commission from Cassell and Co. for an annotated edition of Shakespeare .
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
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Textual Production Regina Maria Roche
RMR published through the Minerva Press another novel, Nocturnal Visit, A Tale; Shakespeare is quoted on the title-page.
Roche, Regina Maria. Nocturnal Visit, A Tale. Minerva Press.
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Textual Production Patricia Wentworth
PW published her second novel, A Little More than Kin (published in the USA as More than Kin, which somewhat obscures the literary allusion to Shakespeare 's Hamlet).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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.
Textual Production Mary Sewell
MS published Pictures and Ballads of London Life, illustrated with twelve coloured pictures by J. M. Kronheim .
Kronheim and Company was an influential firm of colour printers. The company was established by J. M. Kronheim
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 Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

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...

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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...

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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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