William Shakespeare

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Standard Name: Shakespeare, William
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1856. An oval frame is painted round Shakespeare, who looks inscrutably at the viewer, with a bald forehead, moustache and small beard, wearing a black coat with white collar and a hoop earring in his left ear.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Literary responses Anne Bradstreet
This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...
Literary responses Rudyard Kipling
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge , reviewing Puck of Pook's Hill for the Times Literary Supplement, saw Kipling as a realist who in later life had learned to represent the dreaminess of life. Though his Puck...
Literary responses Jane Porter
JP was, with her sister , one of those praised by John O'Keeffe in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare lived in...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
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John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Literary responses Michael Field
Edith and Katharine must have also been extremely pleased with the praise they received from the critics. A review in The Spectator heralded a new voice which is likely to be heard far and wide...
Literary Setting Radagunda Roberts
The action takes place in Edinburgh immediately after the reign of Shakespeare 's Macbeth (whose leading character is, however, seldom mentioned), soon after the conquest of England by William the Conqueror . Malcolm loves and...
Literary Setting Constance Naden
The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or...
Literary Setting E. Nesbit
Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN 's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway...
Literary Setting Mary Julia Young
MJY 's novel is set in eleventh-century Scotland, a couple of generations after the time of Shakespeare 's Macbeth. Donalda, also known as the Flower of Yarrow, suspects that the mystery of her...
Literary Setting Sir J. M. Barrie
Crichton is a lower-class hero in class-stratified England, who is vindicated in the setting of an imagined island, rather in the manner of Shakespeare an romance.
Literary Setting Mathilde Blind
MB uses an epigraph from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (in Edward FitzGerald 's free translation): The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter—and the bird is on the wing.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
prelims
Literary Setting Michelene Wandor
The writing here mixes love poetry with the evocation of historical periods (the Renaissance, the time of Shakespeare ) and milieus (the various displacements of the Jews around Europe). Her re-envisioning of Esther involves MW
Material Conditions of Writing Ngaio Marsh
In 1946 Caxton Press published NM 's little book A Play Toward, the writing of which was sandwiched between productions of A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare and Henry V, a practical handbook for actors and producers.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Material Conditions of Writing Flora Thompson
FT had grown up reading poetry and wishing to be a poet. For years this was the direction of her deepest literary aspirations, in which Ronald Campbell MacFie helped and encouraged her. Stressful periods in...

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