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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Education Mary Catherine Hume
Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 101
Education Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.
Education Maria Theresa Longworth
MTL was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
She later undertook further study in Italy. She consequently became familiar with both French and Italian.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
137
Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
14
, 1971, pp. 275-91.
275
From her writings it is clear...
Education Sarah Kane
At school, SK directed plays by Shakespeare , as well as Joan Littlewood 's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University (first class honours), and...
Education Melesina Trench
Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare , Molière , and Sterne .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Yet she...
Education Harriette Wilson
HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...
Education Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley , a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught...
Education Marie Corelli
Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...
Education Harriette Wilson
While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb set out to get her reading Milton , Shakespeare , Byron , theRambler, Virgil
Education Mary Agnes Hamilton
Initially, MAH was taught by her father , who also coached her in Formal Logic in preparation for her Cambridge Little-go (entrance) examinations. Her parents frequently took their children to the theatre to see the...
Education Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Mary Howitt , a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading...
Education Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Education Georgiana Fullerton
She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Maria Edgeworth . Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...
Education Alice Walker
On her own the child AW was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington —and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please?
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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After...
Education Michèle Roberts
She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf , and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare . She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course...

Timeline

7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...

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7 June 1810

William Charles Macready (son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare an roles.
“William Charles Macready (1793-1873)”. Theatre Database.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...

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August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
250

1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...

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1818

William Hazlitt published A View of the English Stage.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
444

By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...

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By April 1818

Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 283
Price, Leah. “The Poetics of Pedantry from Thomas Bowdler to Susan Ferrier”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 75-88.
80

1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...

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1835

Helen Faucit made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden Theatre, aged eighteen.
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
331-4

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...

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1864

Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
114

1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...

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1870

Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem by William Allingham , a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
Doyle, Richard, and William Allingham. In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870.
prelims

By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...

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By 12 June 1880

Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first of her rather wooden
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
novels, There's Rue for You.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2746 (1880): 757

1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...

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1885

Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare 's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...

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1893

Vale Press was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts ; its first two books were published by John Lane .
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
150
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
334
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
122
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
325
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6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...

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6 June 1904

A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head Press at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare bought in 1597.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
127
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
168
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
301
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
59

1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...

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1906

Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy by Isabella Fyvie Mayo as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw ), was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
169
and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...

19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...

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19 May 1908

A campaign to establish a National Theatre began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre , London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
341
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.
535

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